A plane carrying 82 new immigrants from Ethiopia, Falashmura, landed in Ben-Gurion International Airport during the predawn hours on Tuesday as the state approves bringing them home in greater numbers.
Tens more are expected to arrive on Wednesday, totaling 600 in the coming two months. May of the new olim include first stage relations to community members already living in Israel, some for many years.
State officials report there are over 8,000 Falashmura waiting to come to Israel, but those who do not qualify under the Law of Return face much opposition, with many of the opinion they renounced their religion and are living the life of non-Jews, so bringing them to Israel is contraindicated. Others feel this is not so, explaining they ‘gave of their yiddishkeit’ publically only, a move that was demanded to permit them to survive.
Minister of Absorption Sofa Landver welcomed the new arrivals, confirming those meeting the Law of Return criteria will be brought home. She spoke of the “horrors” endured by the new immigrants, who were living in a transient camp under the harshest imaginable conditions.
The new immigrants will be housed in ministry absorption centers.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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so Israel does not like datim but they like goyim, they treat sincerce Russian converts with suspicion yet have no problems importing those that a tattoo of a CROSS LHAVDIL on their forehead only in Israel.