1970s Soviet Union aliyah

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The 1970s Soviet Union aliyah was the mass immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel after the Soviet Union lifted its ban on Jewish refusenik emigration in 1971. More than 150,000 Soviet Jews immigrated during this period, motivated variously by religious or ideological aspirations, economic opportunities, and a desire to escape antisemitic discrimination. This wave of immigration was followed two decades later by a larger aliyah at the end of the Soviet Union.

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