Exclusive: Falash Mura enclave threatens Ethiopian aliya cap

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: April 7, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

URIEL HEILMAN, Jerusalem Post correspondent
Jerusalem Post
04-07-2005
Headline: Exclusive: Falash Mura enclave threatens Ethiopian aliya cap
Byline: URIEL HEILMAN, Jerusalem Post correspondent
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 01

Thursday, April 7, 2005 -- ADDIS ABABA - A special investigation by The Jerusalem Post has discovered thousands of heretofore unknown potential olim in the Ethiopian hinterlands, posing a potentially serious problem for Israel's plans to end mass Ethiopian aliya by the end of 2007.

In just one of the rural areas visited by the Post during its investigation, in ...

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