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PM vows to absorb 1,000 relatives of Ethiopian Jews already living in Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to bring in 1,000 relatives of Ethiopian Jews currently living in Israel.
The pledge follows a report of the Kan public broadcaster that Kiryat Gat chief rabbi Moshe Havlin forbade a prominent kosher catering company based in the southern town to hire Ethiopian workers until they can prove that they are Jewish.
“Yesterday I heard a racist remarks made against the Ethiopian Jews in Kiryat Gat. We are not willing to accept such racism against Ethiopian Jews,” Netanyahu says in a statement.
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