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(JTA) â Israel is set to speed up its evacuations of some of the relatives of Ethiopian Israelis who remain in the country in the midst of an escalating civil war.
The news comes just a week after Sigd, an Ethiopian Jewish holiday that historically was marked with prayers for God to return the Jewish people to Israel
Those who have first-degree relatives in Israel â a category that was approved for evacuation in an agreement made in 2015 â will be evacuated more quickly. That group will number at least 3,000, Ynet reported.
But there are thousands more Ethiopian Jews waiting to immigrate. Members of the same family may not be able to get to Israel together if they were not all the on the list approved in 2015…
