Israel, in particular, will have to find funds from its limited resources for settling Soviet immigrants who represent the nation's future.

Succeeding waves of immigrants settled there to be near family members and to share a common culture.

As these immigrants settled in Carrboro, they brought the food and culture of their native countries to the town.

During the 1980's, about 86,000 immigrants settled in the city each year; that increased to 112,598 in the first half of the 90's.

Over 50,000 British immigrants settled in Chile from 1840 to 1914.

Clearly, if Israel had a policy of settling Soviet immigrants in the territories, many more would have gone there.

Instead it says it is concentrating its efforts on settling new Soviet immigrants.

Many European immigrants settled in Clarksville throughout the early 1900s, building a community still felt today.

In those decades the country underwent a significant immigration process and many of those immigrants settled on the islands.

As a volunteer at Hull House in the 1930's, she helped settle newly arrived immigrants.