Israel’s government has allocated £39m ($51 million) to bring over 2,000 Ethiopian citizens this year, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The allocation was finalised Wednesday in budget talks, according to the The Marker’s report about the statement. Immigration Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata told Ynet that the 2,000 people awaiting aliyah, or immigration by Jews and their relatives to Israel, will have landed at Ben Gurion Airport by 2021. Israel completed the airlifting of a group of Ethiopian Jews known as Beta Israel in the 1990s. About 30,000 Falash Mura have been brought over to Israel over the past 30 years.

Source: Ethiopian News September 11, 2020 13:52 UTC