By Stephanie Mencimer His campaign claims he convinced the Reagan administration to join a major airlift operation called Operation Moses. Not exactly. Did Jeb Bush help launch a covert mission to airlift thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in the 1980s, saving them from starvation? He says he did. Twice in the past week his
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On Monday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Tel Aviv to protest police brutality and discrimination against the Ethiopian-Israeli community. Two weeks ago, protests by Israel’s Ethiopian minority against police brutality and discrimination in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv drew international attention. While the protests were sparked by a video of an Ethiopian soldier in uniform being
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By JTA Ethiopian Israelis clash with police on April 30 in Tel Aviv to protest racism. Ethiopian-Israeli activists called for a police officer caught on camera beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier to be put on trial. At a news conference Sunday in Tel Aviv, the activists also demanded that charges be dropped against protesters arrested in
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Anyone viewing the recent clashes between Ethiopian-Israeli demonstrators and local policemen in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv could not help being reminded of similar scenes taking place barely a week earlier in Baltimore. Such a clear visual link between events in two such disparate places cannot but be viewed as further testimony to the power of
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Tebeka (Amharic for “Advocate of Justice”), is the legal aid organization serving Israel’s 140,000 member Ethiopian community. The organization was founded in 2000 by the first Ethiopian Israeli attorneys. Press Release As a supporter of Tebeka, you know that Tebeka’s staff, board members, and volunteers have been working to address and eliminate discrimination against the
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Ever since they began immigrating in 1984, Ethiopian Jews feel they have been discriminated against because of the color of their skin. Ethiopian Israelis clash with police officers in a protest in Tel Aviv The catalyst for the violent protests that brought thousands of Ethiopian Israelis out to the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
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Ever since they began immigrating in 1984, Ethiopian Jews feel they have been discriminated against because of the color of their skin. Ethiopian Israelis clash with police officers in a protest in Tel Aviv The catalyst for the violent protests that brought thousands of Ethiopian Israelis out to the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
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By Yaakov Levi
According to officials, there may be as many as 6,000 people still in Ethiopia who are relatives of families already in the country.
Israel officially closed immigration from Ethiopia last year, as all of the Ethiopian Jews had been brought to Israel – as had those from the Falash Mura community, whose Jewish origins are spotty at best. But many of the Falash Mura families, who are from communities that intermarried with non-Jews, still have relatives in Ethiopia – and the Immigration Authority said Wednesday that it may allow them to come to Israel.
According to the Authority, there may be as many as 6,000 people still in Ethiopia who are relatives of families already in the country. Although they do not qualify for Israeli citizenship based on the Law of Return, they may qualify under family reunification statutes. The Authority plans to examine the criteria for them and formulate a policy for admitting them to Israel.
After immigration was closed, a committee was set up to consider applications for those who were ruled ineligible for the Law of Return. Some 4,000 requests for visas to Israel were filed with the committee. The Authority said that it hopes to come up with recommendations on how to move forward within a year.
In a statement, Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar said that “Israel is committed to making courageous decisions to do justice with families that were torn apart for many years.” Activists for Ethiopian Jewry welcomed the decision, saying that it was “a matter of life and death for thousands of Israeli families.”
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