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Almost 8,000 people from the Falash Mura community in Ethiopia will make aliya to Israel in the next four years, according to a decision that was confirmed in the Knesset on Sunday.
"There are approximately 8,000 men, women and children who live under very difficult humanitarian conditions, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said during a government meeting.
The prime minister went on to say that "the Government of Israel seeks to resolve this problem because there is indeed a complex humanitarian crisis there and so as to avoid the creation of additional refugee camps in Ethiopia."[...]
Almost 8,000 people from the Falash Mura community in Ethiopia will make aliya to Israel in the next four years, according to a decision that was confirmed in the Knesset on Sunday.
"There are approximately 8,000 men, women and children who live under very difficult humanitarian conditions, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said during a government meeting.
The prime minister went on to say that "the Government of Israel seeks to resolve this problem because there is indeed a complex humanitarian crisis there and so as to avoid the creation of additional refugee camps in Ethiopia."[...]
These people are goyim.
ReplyDeleteThe Ethiopian Jews (real Jews) already in Israel are insisting that these 'falash mura' are phonies who have always historically, as xtian missionaries, persecuted them in Ethiopia and are coming to chase them down in Israel to try to convert them once again, and spread their heresy, aside from the financial benefits involved in escaping ethiopia. So what is the Israeli gov't's intention with this?
ReplyDeleteThe original Ethiopians are not born Jews either. Whether their conversion was done validly, I'm uncertain.
ReplyDeleteThe rabbis (including Rav Moshe Feinstein) declared them to be Jews and some of the great rabbis required "geyrus lechumra," correct? That is a far cry from what you said, and it's certainly not the case of the current crop of "falash mura."
ReplyDeleteThat is quite a large number of people.
ReplyDeleteRav Moshe said the opposite. Rav Moshe paskened that in order for them to be considered Jews they must convert.
ReplyDeleteSee Tzitz Eliezer, 17:48, Igeros Moshe, Yoreh De'ah 4:41