More than 100 immigrants from Ethiopia are set to land in the Jewish state on Thursday as Jerusalem continues to roll back coronavirus restrictions across the country.
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At least 119 Ethiopian Jews from will make the journey to their new homeland, marking the second time members of Beta Israel will be allowed to move to Israel since the outbreak of the pandemic, according to Haaretz.
The Beta Israel are descendants of Ethiopian Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The new Israelis will depart from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on a special flight Thursday afternoon arranged by the Jewish Agency, Haaretz reported.
The development comes just days after the first Ethiopian-born Israeli lawmaker, Pnina Tamanu-Shata, was named as the country's new Minister of Aliyah and Integration for the Blue and White party.
Some 400 Beta Israel community members were allowed to make aliyah (immigration to Israel) in February and arrived just a week before the country held its third election in under a year.
This article was originally published by i24NEWS.
