Source: Jpost.com

An entire planeload of 150 immigrants from five South American countries will arrive on Thursday, evidence of the 15-20 percent increase in aliya from the region over past year.

“This is the first time that such a big group is coming together on aliya,” said Silvina Sofna, the Jewish Agency’s Latin American aliya director. The olim are from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, most aged 25-30, she said.

The plane, which is leaving from Sao Paulo on Tuesday, will be flown by Javier Ruben, an El Al Israel Airways employee born in Argentina who worked in Mexico for two years as a Jewish Agency aliya emissary.

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