By RUTH EGLASH
The Jewish Agency for Israel announced Sunday that Ethiopian-born Israeli Asher Seyum, formerly head of immigration services for Jerusalem and the South, has been appointed head of the JAFI delegation in the East African country.Seyum, who immigrated as a child in 1984, is the first Ethiopian born Israeli to take up the important post. He will be responsible for overseeing the smooth transition of a few hundred Ethiopian immigrants to Israel each month.In November, the government finally reached a breakthrough in the decision to continue the flow of immigration from Ethiopia. Currently close to 8000 Falash Mura – Ethiopians of Jewish descent, are waiting in the Northern city of Gondar for final Israeli government approval to make aliya. For the past two years the entire process ground to a halt as political factions argued for and against continuing aliya from Ethiopia.
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