Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed 121 new immigrants (olim) from Ukraine at a reception held as they disembarked from a special flight organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. “I am especially pleased to see the children who moved to Israel today,” Netanyahu said. These children have a wonderful future here in Israel. Here is your home, and here is your place.” The passengers said a deteriorating economic situation and a prevalence of anti-Semitism were the two primary factors motivating them to move to the Jewish state.

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