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May. 22, 2002
Sharon: One million new immigrants needed
By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon renewed his pledge to help bring 1 million new immigrants here upon receiving an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University last night.
"Israel's Jewish character is not guaranteed and is not invulnerable. It requires immigration and the settlement of the land. It requires that we work to ensure a permanent and decisive Jewish majority, while, of course, fully protecting the rights of the minority as guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence," Sharon said. Given the rate of assimilation in the Diaspora, "we must set a supreme national goal of bringing about the immigration of a million Jewish within the next ten to 15 years."




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