Israel’s interior minister, on a fact-finding mission to Ethiopia, promised to streamline the review process of Ethiopians seeking to immigrate to Israel. But Natan Sharansky stressed that not all 26,000 Falash Mura, who claim Jewish roots, will be able to come to Israel.
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