i24 News – A total of 38,000 immigrants arrived in Israel since last year’s Independence Day, representing the highest annual number in two decades, the Jewish Agency said on Sunday. The Jewish state celebrates its Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut) starting on the evening of Wednesday, May 4 until the evening of Thursday, May 5. From the start of the war in Ukraine, the State of Israel has received more than 15,000 new immigrants and this is a source of great national pride,” Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata said in a statement last Monday. The number now stands at 9,506,000: 73.9 percent Jews, 21.1 percent Arab and 5 percent other. Besides the 38,000 immigrants, some 191,000 babies were born and 55,000 people passed away.

Source: Ethiopian News May 01, 2022 18:59 UTC