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 | | Most of the participants - 87% - lived in the USA prior to their aliya, with 56% from the East Coast, 13% from the West Coast, 7% from the Southeast and 11% lived in the Midwest. |
 | | When asked why they came on aliya, 61% indicated that it was their connection to Israel and Judaism that greatly affected their decision, and 52% stated that prior visits to Israel had greatly influenced them. |
 | | So the more we do that, the better the chance of aliya." Most of those surveyed describe themselves as belonging to some religious stream of Judaism: 53% defined themselves as Orthodox, 18% as Conservative, 6% as Reform, 14% consider themselves to be secular and 1% said they had converted to Judaism. |
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