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Israel Remembers Ethiopian Jews Who Died Trying to Reach Israel


(World Israel News) Paul Shindman - At the annual ceremony on Thursday at the Israeli national cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined Ethiopian Jewish community leaders to remember the 4,000 Jews who perished in the 1980s as they tried to reach Israel. 140,000 Ethiopian Jews live in Israel today.
2020-05-22 00:00:00
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