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By TOI Staff - August 11, 2022
Immigration to Israel from Ukraine and Russia tripled in the months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced Wednesday.
Between February 24, when the invasion began, and July 31, 12,175 immigrants arrived from Ukraine and 18,891 arrived from Russia, a total of 31,066 over the five-month period. Approximately half the Ukrainian immigrants arrived between March and April, the bureau said.
This figure marks a 318 percent increase over the same period in 2019, when 2,651 immigrants arrived from Ukraine and 7,123 from Russia, the CBS noted, for a total of 9,774 (2019 was used due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the next two years).
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