The Israeli government approved a plan on October 12 to airlift Ethiopian Jews to Israel in the coming months. The minister of immigration and absorption, Pnina Tamano-Shata, is the first Ethiopian Jew to become a minister in the country - oversees the policy of bringing the Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Budget constraints was the reason she cited to explain why only 2000 Ethiopian Jews were being hosted in the country — a justification that current and retired Israeli Ethiopian officers find insufficient. But Israel’s Interior Ministry doesn’t officially accept Ethiopian Jews on the grounds of their forefathers having converted to Christianity. In 2015, Israel approved a plan to bring the remaining Ethiopian Jews from the camps by 2020, but the plan could not materialise.

Source: Ethiopian News October 16, 2020 10:30 UTC