A planeload of 93 Jews from the remote Kwara region of Ethiopia was expected to land Thursday in Israel. The Israeli government recently decided to expedite the emigration of Jews from Kwara, some of whom have been waiting to make aliyah for as long as seven years. Unlike the Falash Mura, the Ethiopians from Kwara, who number as many as 4,000, are seen as indisputably Jewish.
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