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31 March 2007
Ethiopia said it has canceled plans to shut a camp used as a community center for 7,000 Ethiopian Jews seeking emigration to Israel.
The government announced Friday that synagogue and food services would be allowed to continue in the camp for the Falashmura Ethiopians but school services and activities promoting immigration to Israel will be cut off, Haaretz reported Friday.
The decision follows diplomatic pressure from the The United Jewish Communities of North America, which funds the camp, and other groups on the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington.
The camp does not serve as residence to the Falashmura but it has been used for a school, a synagogue and other services required by the Jewish community. The center fed children in the community and employed many adults as teachers and craftspeople.
Avraham Neguise, director of the South Wing to Zion advocacy organization that works to bring Falashmura immigrants to Israel, said after the announcement: "We are steadfast in our path to reopen all the activities there. Because of the diplomatic moves, we succeeded in canceling parts of the order, while the Israeli government sat on the side and did not do a thing."
Source: The Washington Times
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