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Last stages of Ethiopian aliyah set to begin

By JTA

OCTOBER 28, 2012 22:02

A charter flight of some 240 Ethiopian Jews is launching the final stages of the aliyah from Ethiopia.

Monday's scheduled flight marks the beginning of Operation Dove's Wings, an Israeli government initiative to bring the remainder of the Falash Mura - Ethiopians whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity - to Israel by March 2014.

The Ethiopians are waiting in a refugee camp in the Gondar province before coming to Israel. Some have been waiting for 10 years.

The flight is the first of a series of scheduled monthly flights.

A ceremony to welcome the new Ethiopian immigrants will be held Monday featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government officials, as well as philanthropy officials from Israel and the United States.

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