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Aliyah figures from UK drop

December 28, 2010 16:55

ByRobyn Rosen, Robyn Rosen

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The number of people moving to Israel from Britain has gone down by 11 per cent.

A total of 756 people made aliyah this year, 11 per cent less than 2009, when 853 people moved from Britain.

A spokesman from the Jewish Agency, which released the figures today, said: "One has to look at the bigger picture. You cannot base a trend on one year. It's still a very large number compared with before the 21st century. I wouldn't read into it."

All together, 19,129 people around the world are estimated to move to Israel in 2010, 16 per cent higher than the previous year.