The High Court has issued an interim order freezing the immigration of the Flashmob members from Ethiopia

Supreme Court Justice Mintz ruled that the government would not be able to carry out the aliyah until a decision is reached on the petition demanding the annulment of the decision to raise 3,000 Flashmob members.

Minister Tamano Sheta: "Every day that the danger passes to the immigrants from the remnants of the seed of Israel increases, they have suffered more than enough and an end must be put to it."

Yael Friedson

02/02/2022

Wednesday, 02 February 2022, 19:47 Updated: 20:02

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Tonight (Wednesday), the High Court issued an interim order freezing the immigration of the Flashmob

members from Ethiopia, as part of a petition demanding the annulment of the government's decision to expel 3,000 people from the country. This, pending a decision

Of an Israeli delegation to Addis Ababa in the coming days to set the criteria for the group's increase in the coming weeks.

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In a petition filed by "Eitan - The Center for Israeli Immigration Policy", former chairman of the Ethiopian Immigrants Association Avraham Yardai and other activists, the petitioners demand that the decision be annulled. Adv. And the members of the Flashmob are not Jews but are defined as the seed of Israel, and undertake to undergo conversion upon their immigration to Israel.

Therefore, this is a policy change that the government has no authority to make, and should be enacted in primary legislation.

Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamanu Sheta, who is leading the aliyah operations, responded to the decision this evening:

It is important to note that with each passing day the danger to immigrants from the remnants of the seed of Israel and the Jews of Ethiopia increases, especially in the geopolitical and warlike situation prevailing in Ethiopia.

We are in continuous contact with the worried families in the country and also with those waiting in Ethiopia,

"They have suffered more than enough over the years and this should be put to an end," Minister of Immigration and Absorption Pnina Tamano Sheta (Photo: Official website, Noga Melsa)

The Center for Israeli Immigration Policy responded: "We welcome the requested decision made today, according to which the government is prevented from working to bring thousands of non-Jewish foreign nationals from Ethiopia, bypassing the provisions of the Law of Return and Israel's declared immigration policy. To turn a blind eye to the lack of connection of those subjects to Judaism. "

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