A five day hunger strike by representatives of the Falasha community in Israel ended over the weekend in Beersheba, fter Rafael Kotlowitz, head of the Jewish Agency immigration and absorption department, promised the Falashas the Agency would do its utmost to help Ethiopian Jews immigrate to Israel.
Kotlowitz assured the Falashas, during their two-hour talks, that the government was doing everything it could to save the Jews of Ethiopia and bring them to Israel. “I suggest you demonstrate in front of the Ethiopian Embassy in the U.S. and not in Eretz Yisrael,” he said. Following Kotlowitz’s visit, the strikers consulted each other and said they were persuaded by his sincerety and decided to end the strike.
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