Gov't freezes final aliyah of Ethiopian Jews over budgetary issues
- 8 years ago
Three months after the government approved a plan to bring the remaining members of the Falash Mura community from Ethiopia to Israel, Ynet has learned that it was put on hold until a budget can be found for it.
The director-general of the Prime Minister's Office, Eli Groner, sent an email to the team in charge of the plan's implementation, telling them that due to the fact the government approved the plan without allocating a budget for it, the aliyah of over 9,000 people still waiting in Ethiopia will be suspended until the NIS 3 billion required to fund it are allocated.
MK Dr. Avraham Naguisa (Likud), the chairman of the Knesset's Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, criticized the decision to put the plan on hold, accusing government officials of "repeatedly ignoring government decisions and the law out of racist reasons, and further deepening the institutional discrimination against Ethiopian Jews."
The director-general of the Prime Minister's Office, Eli Groner, sent an email to the team in charge of the plan's implementation, telling them that due to the fact the government approved the plan without allocating a budget for it, the aliyah of over 9,000 people still waiting in Ethiopia will be suspended until the NIS 3 billion required to fund it are allocated.
MK Dr. Avraham Naguisa (Likud), the chairman of the Knesset's Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, criticized the decision to put the plan on hold, accusing government officials of "repeatedly ignoring government decisions and the law out of racist reasons, and further deepening the institutional discrimination against Ethiopian Jews."