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On the way home: "Waiting to meet mom" | Israel today

2022-05-29T21:01:55.809Z


The suitcases are already packed, and thousands of Ethiopian immigrants are expected to immigrate to Israel after a one-year break • "Waiting 17 years to reunite with our relatives in Israel"


After a break of almost a year, Operation Tzur Israel will resume to raise 3,000 first-degree family members of Ethiopian immigrants in Israel, waiting in the Gondar and Addis Ababa aliyah camps.

Zamna, 29, and his wife, 23, have been waiting in Gondar for 17 years.

For a couple of children aged 8, 3 and a year, and for parents and siblings in Israel.

The mother of her time immigrated to Israel ten years ago.

They came from a village in the Jojm area 17 years ago and moved apartment several times.

To Israel he will pack clothes in two suitcases.

"I only spoke to my mother on the phone. She did not meet my three children. I want to be with my family."

Immigrants, Chager and his family,

Another family is that of Chager (63) and his wife Almito (60) and their seven children.

They talked about the difficulty of having a family with many children and the difficulty of renting an apartment in Gondar.

The mother said she feared one of her children would start a family in Gondar and be left behind, so all the children are still single.

The couple's two daughters immigrated to Israel about 20 years ago, and they are waiting to reunite with them and get to know their grandchildren.

"We feel sad that it took so long, and sometimes we get angry about it," says Ngusa, one of the boys, "but the parents were happy that the girls came to Israel because it opened up an opportunity for them, and we prayed that we too would get the opportunity and now it has come."

The family members say that they do not have objects of sentimental value that they will take to Israel, "only clothing and food."

"We only took clothes," her time and family,

The first flight will land on Wednesday on a Jewish Agency plane in cooperation with the Friendship Foundation and the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption, headed by Minister Pnina Temano-Sheta.

The chairman of the Zionist Organization, Yaakov Hagoel, said: "Thousands of new immigrants from Ethiopia will be able to fulfill their dream and unite with their relatives."

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Source: israelhayom

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