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steering committee has been estab-
lished, including representatives of the
Jewish Agency for Israel, the religious
kibbutz movement and Yeshiva
University alumni in Israel.

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The American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee is preparing
to return to Ethiopia, just four
months after it virtually shut down its
operations in the African nation at the
request of the Israeli government.
Reports of death, illness and
impoverished conditions among the
thousands of Ethiopians who have
flooded into the capital city of Addis
Ababa and Gondar City prompted
this move by the relief agency
"We hope that this matter can be
brought to an early resolution,"
Michael Schneider, JDC's executive
director, told national Jewish organiza-
tional leaders in New York, "so that
the Falash Mura population can be
clear as to their future."
JDC's decision underscores what
many American Jews are beginning to
see as the need for expeditious action
regarding the Falash Mura, who con-
sider themselves Jewish and want to
immigrate to Israel, but are not recog-
nized as Jews by Israel.
A separate population of about
2,500 Ethiopian Jews from the Kwara
region has been recognized by Israel
— and plans for their immigration are
currently under way. By all accounts,
however, the processing of the Kwara
Jews is advancing at a snail's pace.
The JDC wants Israel to step up its
work screening the thousands of aliyah
applicants, who currently live in
shacks around the compounds where
the JDC operated — and where Israel
has its government offices — in Addis
Ababa and Gondar City.
Since July some 15,000 Falash
Mura have uprooted themselves from
their agrarian communities and relo-
cated to the larger towns, transform-
ing themselves into what the JDC
describes as "a population of urban
slum dwellers."
JDC will help community leaders
to establish medical clinics.

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