JERUSALEM, (APP/AFP) – Israel is to admit
hundreds more Ethiopian migrants with family in the Jewish state,
the ruling party said, resolving a political crisis that had
threatened to bring down the government.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party said on
Thursday night it had agreed with its partners in the vulnerable
coalition government that 1,300 Ethiopians would come this year
and more would be considered later.
Ethiopian Israelis staged a protest march in Jerusalem
last month after the government cancelled plans to allow their
relatives to join them, citing budgetary constraints.
The people in question are members of a community known as
Falash Mura, descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to
Christianity, many under duress, in the 18th and 19th
centuries.
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