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This Week

Ethiopian Fix

Sharansky says Israel must streamline
the process for Falash Mura.

Ethiopian Jewry, an organization that
has been pushing Israel to speed up the
application process.
Jerusalem
Prior to Sharansky's trip, two Israeli
he approaching Passover
legislators returned from Ethiopia and
holiday provided a backdrop
warned that the Falash Mura are fac-
for the Israeli interior minis-
ing hunger and disease. Zevulun Orley
ter's mission to Ethiopia,
and Yuri Shtern also warned that a
where he reviewed the situation of
drought is imminent where the Falash
thousands who seek an exodus to Israel.
Mum are waiting.
Natin Sharansky said he
Sharansky noted the dire conditions
empathizes with the suffering of the
in the compounds and lauded humani-
18,000 Ethiopians who
tarian aid provided at the
have amassed at dusty tran-
sites by such organizations
sit camps, and he promised
as the American Jewish Joint
to smooth the process of
Distribution Committee.
applying for immigration
At the same time, he
to Israel.
said, the criteria for deter-
But the minister made
mining immigration eligi-
clear he could not promise
bility cannot be altered.
that all of Ethiopia's esti-
"On the one hand we
mated 26,000 Falash Mura
have a humanitarian prob-
— descendants of
lem, where we must ease the
Ethiopian Jews who con-
suffering of people," he said.
Natan Sha ransky
verted to Christianity —
"On the other hand, the Law
would be found eligible.
of Return, as the basis for the
"To see the suffering up close is a
state of Israel for the ingathering of
difficult experience that is impossible
exiles, cannot be different for America,
to be indifferent to," said Sharansky,
Russia, Morocco and Ethiopia."
who spent nine years in Soviet prisons
Sharansky promised to streamline
the review process by
for trying to help Jews make aliya.
• Allowing requests for immigration to
At the same time, the interior min-
ister said he does not intend to
be submitted in Ethiopia itself, in
announce a mass immigration of the
order to shorten examination proce-
Falash Mura without a careful review
dures and make them more efficient.
of applicants' eligibility to immigrate
Until now, the only way for Falash
under the Law of Return, under which
Mura to apply for aliya has been
any person with one Jewish parent or
through a relative in Israel.
grandparent is entitled to make aliya,
• Increasing staff dealing with the
or under the Law of Entry, which pro-
requests at Israel's Interior Ministry.
vides for family reunification.
The ministry has until now had only
Sharansky this week visited com-
one staff member handling all of the
pounds in the Ethiopian capital of Addis
applications coming from Ethiopia.
Ababa and in the northern city of
"Even for those who are ineligible,
Gondar, where thousands of Ethiopians,
we must give them a speedy response.
who left their homes hoping to move to
There cannot be a situation where
Israel, live in crowded camps. Some of
people sit here for years and do not
them have waited for years to receive
get an answer," Sharansky said.
answers to their immigration requests.
"This is the first time that a minis-
At the compound in Addis Ababa,
ter goes there and visits the people,"
some of the Ethiopians sang Israel's
said Yafet Alemu, of the Southwing to
national anthem and baked matzot to
Zion group in Jerusalem.
show Sharansky what they had learned
"Up until now, he did nothing on
about Judaism since leaving their villages.
the issue of this problem, even though
we tried to explain the situation to
Some 18,000 Falash Mura are living
him. Now, after he goes and sees the
in squalid conditions near compounds
in Addis Ababa and Gondar operated
people, and prayed with them, I hope
by the North American Conference on
he hears them."

NAOMI SEGAL
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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