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Israel creating high-level body to address Ethiopian needs

By ANI | Updated: May 29, 2023 00:40 IST

Tel Aviv [Israel], May 29 (ANI/TPS): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced at Sunday's weekly Cabinet meeting the creation ...

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Tel Aviv [Israel], May 29 (ANI/TPS): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced at Sunday's weekly Cabinet meeting the creation of a ministerial-level committee to address the needs of the country's Ethiopian community.

"I am aware that there are additional challenges, but this committee is the tool to continue advancing our brothers and sisters from the Ethiopian community. I know that it will receive the cooperation of all ministries, as has been the case up until now," said Netanyahu.

Earlier this month, the premier and other government leaders joined Israel's Ethiopian community for a Jerusalem Day ceremony commemorating the thousands who died trying to reach the Jewish homeland.

The gathering paid tribute to the 4,000 members of Beta Israel who died, mainly of malnutrition and disease, between 1979 and 1990 while travelling by foot from Ethiopia to transit camps in neighbouring Sudan.

At the event, Netanyahu praised changes in the educational curriculum expanding on the story of the Ethiopian exodus, and promised to boost housing, employment, education and health assistance.

Some 90,000 Ethiopian Jews came to Israel in a series of airlifts dating back to 1980. Today, Ethiopian Israelis number around 160,000, almost 2% of the country's population.

On May 9, 111 new immigrants from Ethiopia landed in the Jewish state. IDF Major General (res.) Doron Almog, the Jewish Agency's chairman of the executive who led missions in the 1980s to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel, welcomed the new immigrants.

"The arrival of each plane of olim [immigrants] is a historic moment for the Jewish people," he stated. (ANI/TPS)

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