An Israeli legislator proposed amending Israel’s Law of Return to help Ethiopian immigrants. Avraham Poraz, a former Israeli interior minister, wants to extend the law, which grants automatic citizenship, to applicants who had at least one Jewish great-grandparent, the Jerusalem Post reported.
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