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Miriam Alster/FLASH90Members of the Falash Mura Jewish Ethiopian community attend morning prayers in the synagogue in Gonder, April 21, 2016, Ethiopia.
‘I am extremely excited to see these new arrivals in Israel,’ Minister for Aliyah and Integration says
On Thursday morning, Israel welcomed another 162 Ethiopian Jews, members of the Falash Mura community, who landed in the Jewish state to make their aliyah — immigration.
The newly-made Israelis made their way into the Jewish state on the fifth flight conducted as part of the so-called “Rock of Israel” operation.
“I am extremely excited to see these new arrivals in Israel,” Pnina Tamano-Shata, Israel’s Minister of Aliyah and Integration, who is of Ethiopian origin herself, said.
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“We have begun to correct this old wrong, and it gives me the strength to continue to act,” she added.
Under the restrictions imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus in Israel, the new immigrants will have to go for a two-week quarantine before reuniting with their families.
Under “Rock of Israel,” the Jewish state intends to fly in a total of some 2,000 Ethiopian Jews, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in October, unveiling the plan.
In early December, 316 Ethiopians of Jewish faith arrived in Israel as part of this initiative.
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