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The Israeli government approved plan Bringing in nearly 2,000 Ethiopian Jews in what is seen as an important step in ending a decades-long debate over their fate.
There are some 8,000 Ethiopian Jews who have been waiting for years for a decision allowing them to emigrate to Israel and reside there.
Israeli laws do not give Ethiopian Jews, known as “Flash Mora”, the direct right to automatically obtain citizenship once they arrive on their lands, as is the case with most of the world’s Jews.
The secret operations had allowed the transfer of several Ethiopian Jews to Israel during the era of the eighties of the last century. And many of them are related to the Jews of Flash Moura.
Israel allows immigration applications to be examined by Flash Mora individually, depending on the situation, and thousands of them reside in camps in Gondor and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
Many of Flash mura’s Jews have their roots in the “Beta Israel” sect, a sect deeply rooted in the ancient kingdom of Aksum in present-day Ethiopia. But the missionaries were able to convert a large section of them to Christianity during the 19th century.
Later, the “Beta Israel” sect returned to Judaism again. However, they have not been recognized as “fully Jewish” by the Israeli Interior Ministry.
And Israeli society has always witnessed widespread controversy over the expedient of bringing their descendants, “the Jews of Flash Mora,” and the dispute even reached out to members of other Ethiopian Jews in Israel.
Some Israelis of Ethiopian descent are calling for the “Flash Mora” to be allowed to come to the country and join them, while another sector is refusing to do so on the grounds that it does not recognize that they are Jewish in the first place.
Israeli Immigration Minister Benina Tamanu Chata welcomed the government’s decision. She tweeted, “Very happy with the decision and high.”
Benina, who was recently appointed to the post, is reported to belong to the Jews of Ethiopia. Previously, he promised to bring the rest of the “Flash Mora” before the end of next year, at the latest.
The eighties of the last century witnessed a series of intelligence operations to bring Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps in Sudan by agents of the foreign intelligence service in Israel, “Mossad”, with direct operations of the then Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
In the following decade, specifically 1991, another number of Ethiopian Jews were transported to Israel via various flights.
The integration of Ethiopian Jews into Israeli society seems very difficult in light of the high rates of unemployment and poverty among them from the rest of society, in addition to the discrimination against them, which continues despite the slight improvement in the matter. During the last years.