Members of Israel’s Ethiopian community demonstrated outside the Interior Ministry in Jerusalem. The protesters demanded Monday that the government arrange the immigration of 18,000 members of their community they say remain stranded in Ethiopia. A similar demonstration was held Sunday opposite the Prime Minister’s Office.
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