(CBN) – Approximately 400 Ethiopian Jews are about to find their new homes in Israel. The move came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet on Sunday approved the relocation of hundreds of Ethiopian Jews to their biblical homeland. “I am proud of the fact that as Prime Minister, I have had the privilege of bringing thousands of our brothers and sisters from Ethiopia, and we intend – of course – to continue doing this,” Netanyahu said in a cabinet meeting.
Netanyahu vowed to help the Ethiopian immigrants successfully assimilate into Israeli society and combat all “expressions of racism” they may face. Aliyah and Absorption Minister Yoav Galant told government ministers “around 40 years ago, as a commando, I had the privilege of helping to bring the first Ethiopian Olim (immigrants) from the Sudanese coast.
“Today, as Aliyah and Absorption Minister, we are working to bring the remaining Falash Mura, who have been waiting in Ethiopia, due to the elections process, for a year already. There are 398 people waiting for nothing in Addis Ababa and Gondar when they could be sitting today in absorption centers in the State of Israel,” Galant said. FULL REPORT
