MK David Amsalem (Likud) threatened to cause another coalition crisis if no progress is made on the stalled immigration of 9,000 Ethiopian Jews waiting in Addis Ababa and Gondar to Israel. Speaking at a session held by the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee on Tuesday in conjunction with the Knesset Committee for Aliya and Absorption, Amsalem, chairman of the former, said: “These are people who are sick and dying. It won’t happen under my watch that a child will die because we didn’t bring them for medical treatment.”Relevant to your professional network? “They are working in illegal jobs in order to survive,” he added. “It’s depressing... people are begging to be recognized as Jews.”He also raised a dispute over a building in Addis Ababa – or lack thereof – for Jewish Agency and Interior Ministry officials to work out of.

Source: Ethiopian News March 21, 2017 16:52 UTC