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27 US youths make aliyah to enlist in IDF
Flight carrying 210 new olim from North America lands in Israel Tuesday
A Nefesh B'Nefesh flight carrying 210 new immigrants from North America arrived in Israel Tuesday morning.
On board the plane were 27 youths from the US who have come to Israel to enlist in the army.

Going to the army (Photo: Sasson Tiram)
The olim were greeted by a reception ceremony at the Ben Gurion Airport attended by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hundreds of veteran olim.
Tuesday's flight is the third out of the 15 Nefesh B'Nefesh flights scheduled to land in the country this summer.
According to the organization's data, some 3,200 people are expected to make aliyah to Israel from the US and Canada in 2007, 90% of them through Nefesh B'Nefesh.