Earlier today a plan with 219 new immigrants from Ethiopia to Israel landed at Ben Gurion Airport.
The flight was the third to bring new Jewish olim from the African country as part of Operation Tzur Israel.
The operation is set to bring some 2,000 members of the community to Israel.
The immigrants were welcomed by Absorption and Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata and officials from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and the Jewish Agency, which took part in the effort.
A child on a flight of immigrants from Ethiopia is seen after landing in Israel, December 22, 2020 (Avishag Shaar Yeshuv)
“Operation Tzur Israel is in full swing,” said Tamano-Shata. “Through the end of January, and in accordance with the government decision I approved last October, a plane carrying hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants will land in Israel almost every week, until the 2,000 people who have waited many years to arrive in Israel are reunited with their families.”
נמשך מבצע צור ישראל : 219 עולים מאתיופיה נחתו בישראל - חדשות בארץ
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A sign with Arabic writing Palestine the land of Jesus is eager for justice, peace and stability is seen at the Lady of Peace church. | AP/Nasser Nasser
A coalition of 17 Christian groups and denominations have asked President-elect Joe Biden to roll back the Trump administration s policies pertaining to Palestinian territories and Israel.
In an open letter sent to Biden last Friday, the church groups stated that “the Christian community in Israel/Palestine continues to suffer as a result of the ongoing [Israeli] occupation.”
“As Palestinian Christians continue to emigrate, we face the real prospect that the survival of the indigenous Christian presence in the Holy Land may soon be in danger,” they stated.
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