(Times of Israel) Naama Barak - A planeload of 240 Ethiopian immigrants, half of them children, landed in Israel on Monday, in an inaugural flight commencing Israel's initiative to bring all remaining Falash Mura to the country, the Jewish Agency announced. The Falash Mura are Ethiopian Jews who were forcibly converted to Christianity or abandoned Jewish customs in the 19th and 20th centuries. "Together we are writing the last page of the history of Ethiopian Jewry. We are now bringing all of our brothers from Africa to Israel," said Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky.
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