The Falasha Mura are the last remaining Jewish community in Ethiopia and have long been persecuted for their beliefs, they are believed to number 20,000.
There are around 80,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, many of them airlifted there during times of crisis, the last organised exodus being in 1991, with 15000 people leaving the country. In 2004 Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin was quoted as saying that mass migration was no longer needed as Ethiopians were free to travel wherever they wished and that the Ethiopian government has no objection for Ethiopian Jews going to Israel.
Many...