Topic: Operation Dove’s Wings

August 28, 2013
11:06 pm

Two Falash Mura girls who became new Israelis Wednesday wave their flags after reaching the airport (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/ToI)

For Ethiopian Jews, the end of a 30-year road to Zion

The arrival of 450 Falash Mura gives closure to Ethiopian Jews’ journeys to Israel — journeys marked by longing, pain, and the ultimate realization of a dream

By Michal Shmulovich

August 28, 2013
3:09 pm

A child kisses the ground after arriving in Israel on Wednesday. (photo credit: Moshik Brin/Courtesy Jewish Agency)

After 30 years, final Ethiopian aliya flights arrive

Last 450 Falash Mura land at Ben Gurion; hundreds of Ethiopian Israelis protest closing of immigration process

By Michal Shmulovich

August 26, 2013
7:19 pm

Preparing for life in Israel: An ordinary day at the Jewish Agency's synagogue in Gondar, Ethiopia (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/ToI)

The last of the Falash Mura?

On Wednesday, a final flight will ostensibly complete the aliya of 7,500 members of a Jewish community that had converted to Christianity. Is this really the end of a hugely controversial mass immigration process? Should it be? The Times of Israel reports from Ethiopia

By Michal Shmulovich