Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he backs a plan to bring 1,000 Falash Mura to Israel from Ethiopia. But Absorption Minister Tzipi Livni said many of the Falash Mura are not eligible under Israel’s Law of Return, and that each case must be investigated individually. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom recently visited the
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