A total of 5,788 Jews left the Soviet Union on Israeli visas in February, of whom 5,749 went to Israel, the Soviet Jewry Research Bureau of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry announced here Wednesday.
Departures in January amounted to 4,713, for a cumulative total of 10,501 Jews who have left the Soviet Union during the first two months of 1990, the NCSJ reported.
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