Tel Aviv [Israel], May 29 (ANI/TPS): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced at Sunday's weekly Cabinet meeting the creation of a ministerial-level committee to address the needs of the country's Ethiopian community. "I am aware that there are additional challenges, but this committee is the tool to continue advancing our brothers and sisters from the Ethiopian community. Earlier this month, the premier and other government leaders joined Israel's Ethiopian community for a Jerusalem Day ceremony commemorating the thousands who died trying to reach the Jewish homeland. Some 90,000 Ethiopian Jews came to Israel in a series of airlifts dating back to 1980. Doron Almog, the Jewish Agency's chairman of the executive who led missions in the 1980s to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel, welcomed the new immigrants.

Source: Ethiopian News May 28, 2023 19:21 UTC