Neguise, who has been fighting for the immigration of the Falash Mura since 1991, says that financial arguments are moot. “What they are saying is an excuse,” he said. “It’s not the money.

Members of the Falash Mura community celebrate with a festive prayer service the immigration to Israel of 180 people from Gondar, Ethiopia, on May 31. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz ...

In 2013, Israel’s Interior Ministry approved the immigration of the remaining Falash Mura, and the Knesset in November 2015 unanimously approved a plan to bring some of them to Israel following ...

Kefale Tayachew Damtie, a father of six from Gondar, Ethiopia’s sixth-largest city, will be on the Wednesday flight. (Another flight with 120 Falash Mura is scheduled to fly out later this week.) ...

Many Israelis also doubt the Falash Mura’s Jewish credentials, despite their being classified as Jews by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate and the three major religious denominations of American Judaism.

Today there are 125,000 people of Ethiopian descent — Beta Israel and Falash Mura — in Israel. However, at least 8,000 Falash Mura still remained in Ethiopia after those rescues.

Falash Mura have been leaving their communities and moving into holding camps in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, since 1991. "Some members of my family have already gone to Israel.

Some 3,000 Falash Mura have emigrated to Israel since January 2000. Up to 100 are making aliyah each week, a figure expected to hold steady through the end of 2001.

The Falash Mura are Ethiopians whose Jewish ancestors converted to Christianity, often under social pressure, but who have resumed practicing Judaism and whose Jewishness is accepted by all three ...

The Falash Mura are descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity — many under duress – during the 18th and 19th centuries, according to Agence France-Presse.

Approximately 8,200 Falash Mura are living in Ethiopia today. This year, under pressure from the Israeli Ethiopian community, the Israeli government approved a plan to allow 1,000 Falash Mura to ...

In 1998 Israel reluctantly agreed to accept all 3,000 Falash Mura then in the two compounds, then ordered the Americans to shut down the facilities. Within days, however, thousands more Falash ...