Michael Bar-Zohar, a Labor Alignment member of the Knesset, called today for the dispatch of an Israeli delegation to Ethiopia to investigate the situation of the Falashas, Ethiopian Jews.
Bar-Zohar made the suggestion in reaction to reports that Ethiopian officials in Addis Ababa were allowing Western journalists to visit the Falashas and have said that any foreigners, including Israelis, could do the same. “We must seize the opportunity and take the Ethiopian government at its word,” Bar-Zohar said. He observed that while it was encouraging that Western journalists were allowed to visit the Falashas, it was much more important for Israelis to do so, in light of the alarming reports of mistreatment of Falashas recently received by the Knesset’s Immigration Committee.
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