After waiting a decade, Ethiopian Jews to Israel June 1, 2022

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Published on Jun 20, 2022
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH8LBbsdE2Y
On Wednesday, a plane carrying 180 eager Ethiopian Jews arrived at Tel Avivâ€™s Ben Gurion airport. For many, their immigration to the Holy Land has been a long time comingâ€”some have been waiting decades to join their families, who already made aliyah.

The flight is part of Operation Tzur Israel, and marks a restart for the long-running operations that have already brought thousands of Ethiopian Jews into Israel since the 1980s. Those missions stopped over a year agoâ€”partly because of COVID, and partly because of court challenges by domestic right-wing groups that questioned the legitimacy of the Africansâ€™ law of return.

Nonetheless, the planes are flying again, and Israel is once again accepting Jews in need. And because North American Jewish Federations contribute to the payment the these operations, a handful of Canadian Jewish leaders flew to Ethiopia this week to bear witness to the migration and meet the people whose lives they helped change. The CJN 's Ellin Bessner interviewed Ariella Rohringer and Sara Gottlieb of Toronto, who work with Federation and the United Israel Appeal; Candace Kwinter, chair of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver; and Bruce Leboff, who was waiting at Ben Gurion airport to greet the newcomers.

Read more on Thecjn.ca
https://thecjn.ca/news/the-latest-rescue-of-ethiopian-jews-as-described-by-the-canadians-along-for-the-adventure-to-israel/

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