In a long and shaky post, "Big Brother" winner explained Ethiopian Jewish Zionist journey • Fresh ex Lior Duak also got excited and made a liking

Ethiopian Remembrance Day is celebrated today (Thursday), and "Big Brother" winner Tikva Gideon posted a long and exciting post on Instagram to mark the important day.

"The dream of Ethiopian immigrants to come to Jerusalem began to come true 50 years ago," Gideon opened the post, continuing a long historical review. "As early as the 19th century, 1862, attempts were made to immigrate to Israel by Father Mahari and two thousand others. Zionism in Ethiopian Jewry did not start on Herzl's porch.

"In Ethiopia, they were called 'Beta-Israel' and considered themselves Jews waiting for salvation in Jerusalem.

"In 1973, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, ruled that Ethiopian Jews are Jews for everything.

"In 1975, the Knesset applied the Law of Return to Ethiopian Jews.

"In 1977, the Israeli government made a decision to bring them to Israel.

"Ethiopia was a state of war. The exit from Ethiopia was forbidden. The Ethiopian government did not allow the immigrants to fly straight from Ethiopia.

"At the end of 1979, Jews began arriving in Sudan. From Sudan, they immigrated to Israel and thus were given the opening signal for immigration from Ethiopia. The Mossad, the Jewish Agency, the IDF and other organizations were working towards a secret rescue operation.

"Operation Moshe at the end of 1984 was conducted. The operation named after Moshe Rabbeinu implies the salvation of Israel from Ethiopia similar to the" Exodus from Egypt "." Operation Moshe "was very secret.

"Those who wanted to immigrate to Israel had to secretly reach the border of Sudan (adjacent to the state of Ethiopia). The dangerous journey to Sudan lasted between two and a month. The hikers could take only little equipment with them. The immigrants organized themselves in small groups and convoys and went on the long road.

"There were parents who were forbidden to go out and sent their children without them. There were fathers who could not join their families and remained in prison. Many families were separated. On the way they encountered robbers, soldiers and forces who opposed the Ethiopian army.

"Not everyone got there! Many died in the dangerous journey.

"After crossing the border into Sudan, they spent months and even years in transit camps for immigration to Israel ... They waited in transit camps until they could fly to Israel.

"Conditions in the camps were difficult and many died there. About 4,000 immigrants died en route to Israel and did not reach the end of the journey. In Operation Moses, another 8,000 immigrants arrived in Israel. About 1,500 of them were children and youth who arrived without their parents. These make contact with their family members who remain in Ethiopia.

"The Memorial Day Ceremony for Immigrants Who Won't Get to Israel was held annually on Jerusalem Day in the plaza of the monument erected in memory of Mount Herzl in Jerusalem."

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Gideon ended the post with the words "May the memory of all who are blessed fall". The post garnered more than 5,000 likes less than two hours after it surfaced, including a surprising Lake Gideon freshman Lior Duak.

"There is nothing about you and your pure heart," pargana one surfer and others added: "You bring respect to a whole community," "you are thrilled" and "made me chill."

Tahunia, the big brother herself, also posted a post with a virtual memorial candle in which she paid tribute to her sister Ainsh Rabba, who found her death on a journey to Israel.

"We love and remember our loved ones who went on a hopeful and faith-filled journey to Jerusalem and did not realize their millennial dream and build their home in the Land of Israel."

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