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Isaac Herzog, director of the Jewish Agency, said: “We hope that thousands of immigrants will be reunited with their families after many years.”
By the Algemeiner team
Israel’s Ethiopian-born Minister of Immigrant Absorption will travel to the country of her birth on Saturday to bring hundreds of the few remaining Jews in the African nation to Israel.
Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata will fly to Ethiopia with representatives of the Jewish Agency, where they will meet with a group of around 500 potential immigrants from Addis Ababa and Gondar, and accompany them back to Israel in two planes of the Jewish Agency, the Israeli journalist Zvika. Klein reported Thursday.
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A delegation led by Absorption Minister Pnina Temano Sheta, including representatives of the Jewish Agency, will depart on Saturday night for the communities awaiting immigration in Addis Ababa and Gondar, and will return on Thursday with some 500 immigrants in two planes chartered by the Jewish Agency. The operation is carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior and the Agency pic.twitter.com/Ozxo25u5MN
– Zvika Klein (@ZvikaKlein) November 26, 2020
The flights are part of Israel’s ongoing Operation Rock, which is scheduled to bring 2,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel by the end of January, comprising most of the remaining Jews in the country.
Tamano-Shata commented: “It is a great mission and a privilege for me to bring home many who have been waiting for decades for the dream of Jerusalem to come true.”
Isaac Herzog, director of the Jewish Agency, said: “We hope that thousands of immigrants will be reunited with their families after many years. The State of Israel has an obligation to act to end the painful saga that has lasted for generations ”.
Tamano-Shata’s mission in Ethiopia comes full circle, as he was born in the Ethiopian village of Wuzaba in 1981 and arrived in Israel as part of the wave of Ethiopian aliyah known as Operation Moses in 1984.
To get to Israel, she, along with her father and five brothers, walked to Sudan, where they and thousands more were flown to the Jewish state. His mother was left behind and the family only reunited several years later.
After receiving a law degree, Tamano-Shata became an activist, joined the Yesh Atid party in 2012, and was elected to the Knesset. She entered the government as Minister of Immigrant Absorption after joining the Blue and White party last year.
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