(Jerusalem Post) Eli Wohlgelernter - 34,508 newcomers arrived in 2002, according to the Immigrant Absorption Ministry, continuing the steady decline in immigration over the last four years, with 44,630 having come in 2001, 61,700 in 2000, and 78,400 in 1999. 18,772 arrived from the former Soviet Union, compared with 33,850 in 2001. Immigration from Argentina increased to 5,960, up from 1,427 in 2001. French immigrants totaled 2,326, up from 1,157. Immigration from Ethiopia totaled 2,693. The number of immigrants from the U.S. was 1,714.
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