Final Planes of Ethiopian Jews Arrive in Israel ("The Jewish Daily - TopicsExpress



          

Final Planes of Ethiopian Jews Arrive in Israel ("The Jewish Daily Forward," August 28, 2013) The final two charter flights of new immigrants from Ethiopia landed in Israel. The two airplanes carrying the 450 new Israeli citizens arrived Wednesday at Ben Gurion Airport. A steady trickle of approximately 200 Ethiopian immigrants per month has been coming to Israel since 2010, when Israel launched Operation Wings of a Dove after checking the aliyah eligibility of an additional 8,000 Ethiopians. The new immigrants are known as Falash Mura — Ethiopians who claim links to descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity generations ago but now seek to return to Judaism and immigrate to Israel. They have been accepted to Israel under different rules than those governing other immigrants.
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:49:46 +0000

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