The emigration of Ethiopia’s Falash Mura will be among the top agenda items next week when the Jewish Agency for Israel’s 121-member Board of Governors meets in Israel. However, the “national aliyah project,” a joint project of international Jewish groups and the State of Israel aimed at facilitating the absorption of Ethiopian emigres, will be postponed until Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon has formed a government, said a JAFI spokesman.
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