Under the current operation, those eligible for aliyah under the government decision are in order of priority: those with parents or children living in Israel those with parents who moved to Israel and later died those with siblings in Israel and those with half-siblings in Israel. On June 1, Uri Perednik, chairman of the Struggle for Ethiopian Aliyah, said despite the welcomed wave of new immigration, “the government of Israel still treats Ethiopian Jews as second-class Jews… if they can bring over 20,000 people from Ukraine in a month, they can certainly bring half that from Ethiopia.”
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“Once and for all we will end the saga and bring a solution.”īut with little government stability and elections predicted to be on the horizon, it remains unclear what will happen following the immigration of the 3,000 people currently eligible. “I have an agreement with Liberman, that we will bring all those with first-degree - he will find the money, the budget,” the minister said. While Israel’s government teeters on the brink of collapse, Tamano-Shata vowed to work to implement other parts of the government decision from November, including providing final answers to those still waiting in Gondar and Addis Ababa, and establishing a committee to examine the eligibility of those without first-degree relatives in the Jewish state. Israel has repeatedly declared the end of Ethiopian aliyah in years past, but the issue has been reopened several times, most recently in the wake of the civil war in the Tigray region of the country which broke out in 2020. The debate over those who still remain behind is fierce - and the numbers heavily contested. Since 1992, an estimated 40,000 such immigrants have been brought to Israel under the Law of Entry, with around 3,500 arriving in the past seven years. Since the conclusion of Operation Solomon in 1991, which saw the vast majority of the remaining Beta Israel community brought to Israel, sporadic government decisions have been made over the years to bring over groups of those left behind, often referred to as Falash Mura - those who converted to Christianity due to coercion or fears of persecution - who are not considered eligible for aliyah under the Law of Return. “When I look at these children and their parents and I hear their stories, their struggle is my struggle - and it must be the struggle of all Israel,” Tamano-Shata said in Addis Ababa on the evening of May 31 just hours before the flight, noting that she fought hard with others in the government to approve the current operation. Restarting such aliyah, the Hebrew term for immigrating to Israel, has been strongly pushed for by Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata - herself a native of Ethiopia - who was aboard the flight from Addis Ababa to Tel Aviv. There, all of the new immigrants will begin months of Hebrew language courses and other instructional activities as well as the process of formally converting to Judaism. They will relocate from a one-room apartment in Gondar with sporadic electricity to one of 12 absorption centers around the country. Now, they and their seven adult children – ranging in ages from 17 to 35 – will be reunited with them in Israel. Teshager Gerem and Alemitu Belew’s two older daughters moved to Israel 17 years ago. He traveled with his wife, Yeshihareg, and their three young children, ages 8, 3 and just over 1 year old – who have never met their grandmother.
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Zemenu Atalele finally got to see his mother, who moved to Israel 10 years ago. In March, the High Court rejected the petition, paving the way for the immigrants to begin to arrive.Īlmost everyone on board the June 1 flight reunited with family members, many of whom they haven’t seen in years. The immigration process was held up after the right-wing Israeli Immigration Policy Center filed an appeal against it with the High Court, which froze the measure as it deliberated. With many dressed in their most festive attire and overcome with emotion, the 181 new arrivals were greeted by a welcoming ceremony to mark the first aliyah flight from Ethiopia since March 2021, when Israel completed the first half of Operation Tzur Yisrael (Rock of Israel), which brought around 2,000 such immigrants. Get The Jewish Chronicle Weekly Edition by email and never miss our top stories Jewish Agency officials say they are all slated to arrive by November.
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A government decision in late 2021 approved bringing 3,000 total new immigrants from Ethiopia to Israel.