All Ethiopian Jews who have entered Israel in recent months will be officially registered as Jews, effective April 1, Interior Minister Yitzhak Peretz announced Wednesday. He has requested the Absorption Ministry to insert the word “Jewish” in the nationality space on their identification cards. Many of the Ethiopian olim were not registered as Jews when they arrived in Israel.
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