Israel in the News Apr/May 1995

Facts & Figures (from The Jewish Free Press) The 500,000 immigrants who have made aliyah from the FSU [Former Soviet Union] since 1989 constitute more than ten percent of Israel’s population. In addition: *53 percent of them are female. *More than half (393,000) of the olim are over the age of 15, including 66,000 who are over 64. *25.9 percent chose Tel Aviv as the site of their first