The boy, 12-year-old Yoel Tegen, cannot be forced to leave Israel because he is a citizen. He said he doesn’t want to live in Israel without his father, who is his guardian, nor does he want to live in Ethiopia. Mor-Yosef issued the decision in late January, but Tegen’s father only received a letter informing him of it on Sunday and now has just 12 days to leave the country. “I’m told: ‘Either leave your father or leave your country. I don’t want to do either.’”Yoel’s father immigrated to Israel 17 years ago and married a Jewish woman about four years later.

Source: Ethiopian News February 18, 2020 20:48 UTC