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The Jews of Falashmura waited for a long time to get to Israel, some of them waited for many years.
Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews are undergoing air evacuations to Israel, and thousands are still waiting their turn in a long list.
This comes weeks after Israel announced plans to do so, after failing to deliver on promises to absorb this community.
The new immigrants have close ties to Ethiopian Jews who were brought to Israel decades ago in a series of clandestine operations.
However, questions about his eligibility to obtain the right to citizenship in Israel and then stability overshadow the process.
The issue has gained momentum in recent weeks, with fighting intensifying between the Ethiopian government and local forces in the northern region of Tigray, and violence is feared reaching the city of Gondar, where most of Jewish community lives in temporary waiting camps.
Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Alternative Prime Minister Benny Gantz, welcomed the arrival of 316 Ethiopian Jews at Ben Gurion Airport.
Netanyahu said in a statement: “Sarah, my wife and I greeted you with tears in our eyes when we saw the immigrants, our Ethiopian Jewish brothers, leave the plane and set foot on Earth, the Land of Israel.”
Netanyahu added: “You have waited a long time for the dream to come true, and today it is realized.”
Israeli immigration minister Benina Tamanu-Shata attended the arrival of Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia on Thursday, which he called Israel’s Operation Rock.
Bennina is reported to be primarily an Ethiopian immigrant who was flown to Israel on a secret airlift in 1984.
The number of Ethiopian Jews is about 8,000 people, who have been waiting for years for a decision allowing them to immigrate and reside in Israel.
The Falasha community is descended from Jews who had converted to Christianity, under duress in many cases, in the 19th century, but in recent decades have regained their religious identity and have begun to practice Jewish rituals in their normal lives.
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The Falashmura community is descended from Jews who had converted to Christianity in the 19th century.
Israeli law does not grant flash mura the direct right to automatically obtain citizenship once they arrive on their lands, as is the case with most of the world’s Jews.
Falashmura Jews do not even enjoy the same rights as their Ethiopian counterparts who had preceded them in the evacuation to Israel, known as “Beta Israel.”
Under Jewish law, Falasha Jews do not meet the criteria for obtaining Israeli citizenship due to doubts about the Judaism of their ancestors.
The issue had been looming for years before the government pledged in 2015 to transfer all children from the Falashmura community by the end of 2020.
Although 16,600 Falasha Jews have applied for immigration to Israel, the Israeli Interior Ministry announced this week that only 2,000 of those who meet the conditions have been brought to Israel.
Israel allows Flash Mora’s immigration applications to be examined individually, on a case-by-case basis.
The slowdown in the process led activists to accuse the government of failing to deliver on its promises.
More than 100 people are expected to attend on Friday. The government says around 1,700 will follow them by the end of January 2021.
Ethiopian Jews were brought to Israel for the first time from refugee camps in Sudan, through a series of covert operations in the early 1980s carried out by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad on the orders of then-Prime Minister Menachem. Begin.
The year 1991 saw more of these operations, as many people were airlifted from Ethiopia to Israel.
Despite improving conditions in recent years, the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel faces obstacles. It suffers from disproportionately high levels of unemployment and poverty, as well as discrimination.
