Members of Israel’s Ethiopian community held a ceremony in Jerusalem in memory of those who died en route to Israel during the past two decades. The ceremony was part of a weeklong celebration for Ethiopian immigrants on the tenth anniversary of Operation Solomon, a massive airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
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