Large-Scale Ethiopian Emigration Ends

The Jewish Agency said its emissary to Addis Ababa had been recalled, though Jerusalem officials could still be sent out to help an estimated 1,400 Falash Mura, the Ethiopian crypto-Jews, to apply for travel papers as part of efforts to reunite with relatives already in Israel. “We will no longer be seeing anything on the scale of ‘Operation Moses’ or ‘Operation Solomon,’” Jewish Agency chairman Zeev Bielski told Israel Radio, referring to major missions to bring in Ethiopians by air and sea during the 1980s.

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