Mileikowsky – “Netanyahu” – “Ben-Nitai”
With us today is Lieutenant Avichail Reuven. Avichail is an officer in the Israeli paratroopers. His family immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian Jews in Palestine are extremely discriminated against! They did not want them arriving to begin with and that is why between 1948 and 1951, only 10 Ethiopian Jews arrived – compare that to Egypt=16,000, Iran=21,000, Iraq=123,000, Libya=30,000, Morocco=28,000, Tunisia=13,000, Turkey=34,000, Yemen=48,000. In 1948, it was estimated that there were 200,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Ethiopia. And the only reason why they were allowed to immigrate in the 1980s was because the Ethiopian Jews had begun to hold huge rallies to raise awareness that they were prevented from entering Palestine!
