The annual memorial ceremony for Jewish immigrants who died on the way to Israel from Ethiopia, June 5, 2016. Yet that is precisely what Israel did with the rescue of Ethiopian Jewry via Operation Moses and Operation Solomon in the last century. The amount of money the social welfare departments in local municipalities spend each year on Ethiopian immigrants is tremendous. On the whole, the Ethiopian immigration story has been a huge boon, both for Israel, and for the Ethiopian immigrants. At the same time, they should also not be used to unfairly paint the whole country – or the government – as being rotten to its core.

Source: Ethiopian News July 02, 2019 14:10 UTC