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181 ETHIOPIAN IMMIGRANTS LAND IN ISRAEL AS ALIYAH FROM AFRICAN NATION RESTARTS


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OF WHAT ARE PROMISED TO BE 3,000 NEW OLIM GREETED WITH FESTIVE CEREMONY AT BEN
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New immigrants from Ethiopia land at Ben Gurion Airport on June 1, 2022. (Maxim
Dinshtein)

Just over 180 Ethiopian immigrants landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday
afternoon, some after waiting decades to arrive in Israel and reunite with
family members.

The flight kicked off the resumption of immigration from the civil war-torn
nation after more than a year following a series of delays. A second flight on
Thursday from Addis Ababa is slated to bring a further 160 new immigrants, with
more flights expected throughout the summer and fall.

A government decision in late 2021 approved bringing 3,000 total new immigrants
from Ethiopia to Israel. Jewish Agency officials say they are all slated to
arrive by November.

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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.

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. In March, the High Court rejected the petition,
paving the way for the immigrants to begin to arrive.

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Almost everyone on board Wednesday’s flight will be reuniting with family
members, many of whom they haven’t seen in years. Zemenu Atalele will finally
get to see his mother, who moved to Israel 10 years ago. He is traveling with
his wife, Yeshihareg, and their three young children, ages 8, 3 and just over a
year old – who have never met their grandmother.

Teshager Gerem and Alemitu Belew’s two older daughters moved to Israel 17 years
ago. Now, they and their seven adult children – ranging in ages from 17 to 35 –
will be reunited with them in Israel. They will relocate from a one-room
apartment in Gondar with sporadic electricity to one of 12 absorption centers
around the country. 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.

Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata handing out gifts aboard
an aliyah flight from Ethiopia on June 1, 2022. (Amy Spiro/The Times of Israel)

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 Wednesday’s flight from Addis
Ababa to Tel Aviv.

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“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 Tuesday evening just hours before the
flight, noting that she fought hard with others in the government to approve the
current operation. “We just need to do the right thing.”

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.

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. The
debate over those who still remain behind is fierce – and the numbers heavily
contested. 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.

While Israel’s government teeters on the brink of collapse, Tamano-Shata vowed
Tuesday 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.

“I have an agreement with [Finance Minister Avigdor] Liberman, that we will
bring all those with first-degree [relatives] – he will find the money, the
budget,” the minister said. “Once and for all we will end the saga and bring a
solution.”



But 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.

On Wednesday, 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.”

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. Individuals who
qualify under one of those categories can bring with them their spouses and
children, as well as any children over 18 who are unmarried.

Each immigrant is approved for aliyah by the Interior Ministry, which – unlike
with other immigration to Israel – approves each candidate one by one following
an investigation into their status. Since 2014, the ministry only handles
requests that have been submitted to it via a family member currently living in
Israel.

While the vast majority of the new immigrants view themselves as full members of
the Jewish community, they have also all agreed – as part of the aliyah process
– to undergo a 10-month conversion program upon arrival in Israel. Jewish Agency
officials say close to 95 percent complete the program successfully – and only
then do they receive an official Israeli ID and full citizenship. Those who do
not retain permanent residency in the country.

Funding for the immigration operation is split into two: The Jewish Agency –
backed by its private donors – covers all costs of preparing the immigrants for
aliyah and bringing them to Israel.

Once the new immigrants land at Ben Gurion Airport, the government begins to
foot the bill. NIS 570 million ($170 million) has been budgeted to fund the
absorption of the immigrants in Israel, the majority of it going toward housing.

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Around 30 Jewish Agency employees – most of whom are themselves former Ethiopian
immigrants to Israel – had been in Ethiopia for several weeks preparing the
families for their impending move. Adane Tadale, the Jewish Agency’s head
emissary to Ethiopia, said that since February he has been spending three weeks
in the country followed by two weeks in Israel, overseeing all the preparations.

Jewish Agency acting chairman Yaakov Hagoel (left) and its head emissary in
Ethiopia Adane Tadela at a synagogue in Gondar, Ethiopia, May 31, 2022. (Maxim
Dinshtein)

The Jewish Agency has estimated that it will cost around $9.6 million (NIS 32
million) to fund its pre-aliya activities for the 3,000 currently approved new
immigrants, which includes pre-flight health checkups and vaccinations, hours of
training and preparation as well as the cost of the flights themselves.

Yehuda Setton, COO of the Jewish Agency, noted that they have not yet raised the
full amount, “but we work at the same time as we raise money.” During a
conversation in Gondar a day ahead of the first flight, Setton said: “We are
committed, and I’m pretty sure that world Jewry will raise the money.”

The funding in question is slated to come mostly from the Jewish Federations of
North America. A large delegation from Jewish Federations across the US visited
Gondar and Addis Ababa this week and flew to Israel with the new immigrants, as
did representatives of and major donors to Keren Hayesod, the International
Fellowship of Christians and Jews, the World Zionist Organization and other
philanthropic foundations.

“There is an unwritten and very powerful agreement that global philanthropy pays
for aliyah, that aliyah is much more than the flight,” said Jeffrey Schoenfeld,
chairman of JFNA’s Israel and Overseas Committee, while visiting Gondar. “That
is an unwavering commitment by the North American Jewish community… it’s been
very powerful in the past, and it remains an absolute commitment.”

JFNA originally pledged $5 million toward the current wave of Ethiopian aliyah,
and later expanded that to promise $7 million. “We will find a way to raise the
funds,” vowed Schoenfeld.

Ethiopians aboard a bus in Gondar, Ethiopia, on May 31, 2022, heading for the
airport to get to Addis Ababa and board a flight to Israel. (Maxim Dinshtein)

But with 3,000 new immigrants slated to arrive in Israel in the coming months,
the real work is yet to come, say Jewish Agency officials.

“In my eyes, the immigration is the easy part,” said Avtamo Yosef, who heads up
the Jewish Agency’s department of Ethiopian immigration. “The absorption is the
complicated part.”

Yosef, a native of Ethiopia who came to Israel as part of Operation Solomon in
1991, said it is critical that the assistance and framework the new immigrants
receive in their first years in Israel “needs to be what the immigrants need,
and not what we [already] know how to provide.”



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