After 20 years of false hope for those awaiting aliyah in Ethiopia; we must make their cause our cause, stop standing on ceremony and bring them home. How is it that what should be a Jewish cause par excellence has been reduced to a parochial story of seemingly marginal interest to the Israeli public? In 2013, Israel declared that it had fulfilled its historic mission of bringing the entirety of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel. Besides, anyone not convinced that these Ethiopian immigrants are bona fide Jews even after their conversion need not marry them. Dr. David Breakstone recently completed a term as deputy chair of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Source: Ethiopian News November 24, 2021 20:44 UTC