COVID Ban on Flights Keeps Out Ethiopian Immigrants
COVID Ban on Flights Keeps Out Ethiopian Immigrants
300 Ethiopian Jews had been scheduled to arrive at Ben Gurion Airport as part of a plan that allowed 1,600 new immigrants. By Jan Jaben-Eilon January 29, 2021, 3:44 pm Edit 8 shares
Members of the Bitao family who arrived on January 22, 2021 as part of Operation Tzur Yisrael kiss the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport (Avi Hayun/Keren Hayesod)
Last week’s ban on passenger airplanes arriving into Ben Gurion Airport, an attempt to control coronavirus variants, halted even incoming planes carrying new immigrants – a first for the State of Israel.