Total Immigration to Israel by Country of Origin

(1948 - Present)

Russia/Ukraine (Former USSR)	1,756,701
Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia	364,745
Romania	277,018
Poland	174,187
Iraq	131,065
United States	123,824
Ethiopia	96,208
France	83,538
Iran	81,154
Argentina	64,212
Turkey	64,352
Yemen	51,551
Bulgaria	44,529
Egypt and Sudan	38,046
Libya	36,120
United Kingdom	38,171
Hungary	33,008
India	29,536
Czechoslovakia (Former)	24,785
South Africa	22,623
Germany	21,215
Brazil	15,764
Canada	13,390
Georgia	12,552
Yugoslavia (Former)	11,067
Syria	10,254

Source: Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.

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