(Washington Post) Ruth Eglash - Venezuela's economic crisis is so severe that citizens must wait in lines for hours at grocery stores to buy basic staples. Tens of thousands have left the country, including a growing number of Venezuelan Jews who have relocated to Israel. Israeli government figures show that 111 Venezuelan Jews made "aliyah," the Hebrew term for immigration meaning "ascending," to Israel in 2015, more than double the number who arrived in 2012. Between 6,000 and 9,000 Jews remain in the country of 30 million.
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