{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-572d6a42.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-f4d0de30.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='Thousands of Ethiopian Jews wanting to be relocated to Israel' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c46bd8eafeecae168a67' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c46bd8eafeecae168a67' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nThousands of Ethiopian Jews wanting to be relocated to Israel\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eGondar, Ethiopia - 20 May 2009 1. Various Ethiopian Falash Mura (people who claim to be descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity) praying at synagogue in Gondar2. Various Terualem Getnet, Falash Mura, spinning cotton...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eGondar, Ethiopia - 20 May 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Various Ethiopian Falash Mura (people who claim to be descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity) praying at synagogue in Gondar\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various Terualem Getnet, Falash Mura, spinning cotton at home in Gondar and photos of her family who are in Israel\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (Amharic) Terualem Getnet, Falash Mura:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I want to go to the 'Promised Land', where my children are. I am very sad because I haven't been able to go to the place where my children are, when they call me I am sad and I am crying a lot. I hope that soon I will get the same opportunity and be with them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Andebet Yimenu, Ethiopian Jew and friend walking to house in Gondar\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various Andebet Yimenu in compound with wife and 9 month old baby\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (Amharic) Andebet Yimenu, Ethiopian Jew:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Life is very difficult for me - I am responsible for a family but we have little money. When we were back in our village we had a farm and we owned property. Now here, we have to pay to rent a house, so it's hard.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various exteriors of compound with synagogue, school and feeding centre and sign and Star of David\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various Getnet Awoke, Teacher of Judaism, in classroom \u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (Amharic) Getnet Awoke, Teacher of Judaism:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I am very unhappy about the situation at the moment, and sorry for the families who have been separated. I don't think the government of Israel would take these decisions if their own families were involved. I sometimes feel that it's because we're from the Third World and that's why they don't want to accept us. It's obvious that they accept that we are Jewish, but the Israeli government has to spend a lot of money on the Ethiopian Jews who go to Israel - such as housing, training and other things and so I believe it might be because of that they don't want us. But I hope the situation will change very soon.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various metalworkers and weavers\u003cbr/\u003eAddis Ababa, Ethiopia - 19 June 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e11. Various Estie Eyob, Representative of Jewish Agency in Ethiopia in her office in Addis Ababa\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Estie Eyob, Representative of Jewish Agency in Ethiopia:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Aliyah (immigration to Israel)  from Ethiopia, to check who deserves it (the status, proving who is and isn't of Jewish descent) is one of the most fascinating jobs and it is also very complicated -  this is why it could take a considerable amount of time to get approved or not.\" \u003cbr/\u003eMevasseret Zion, Israel - 3 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of Jewish Agency immigrant absorption centre \u003cbr/\u003e14. Medium shot of traditional Ethiopian wooden tents \u003cbr/\u003e15. Medium shot of Falash Mura who migrated to Israel \u003cbr/\u003e16. Medium shot of Nana (no last name given) cleaning \u003cbr/\u003e17. Close up on container with Ethiopian flatbread, Nana opening container \u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (Amharic) Nana, no last name given, Falash Mura immigrant to Israel:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We waited 10 years in Addis Ababa after moving from our village. My family and I have been separated nearly 14 years. My mother is now waiting in Addis Ababa to be allowed to come to Israel.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of residents sitting outside their homes in absorption centre \u003cbr/\u003eGondar, Ethiopia - 20 May 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e20. Various Jewish children praying\u003cbr/\u003eThousands of Ethiopians who claim to be Jewish are waiting to be relocated to Israel. \u003cbr/\u003eMany have been separated from their families who have already taken the 'aliyah' (journey) to the 'Promised Land'. \u003cbr/\u003eThe process of being accepted as a descendant of an Ethiopian Jew is complicated and many say their future's uncertain - as the Israeli government decides who will and won't be accepted.\u003cbr/\u003eMen in prayer shawls sway back and forth in makeshift synagogues and children in skullcaps sit on mud floors learning the Hebrew alphabet and Jewish holidays.\u003cbr/\u003eTo fellow Ethiopians they're known as 'Falash Mura', Amharic for 'strangers' or 'exiles'. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Ethiopians claiming to be Jewish prefer to be called 'Beta Israel' - meaning 'House of Israel'. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Falash Mura are descendants of Ethiopian Jews - the latter were forced to convert to Christianity more than a century ago to escape persecution.\u003cbr/\u003eAround 8,700 Falash Mura are living in and around the Ethiopian city of Gondar (700 km northwest of the capital Addis Ababa) are hoping to be relocated to Israel.\u003cbr/\u003eThey began arriving in Israel in the 1970s after a revered rabbi ruled that they were descended from the lost biblical tribe of Dan.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 1991, Israel flew out nearly 15,000 Jews as rebels charged into Addis Ababa to overthrow its communist regime. \u003cbr/\u003eBut then the problems began.  As word of the 1991 operation spread, the Falash Mura also sought to leave.\u003cbr/\u003eSuddenly Israel was confronted with the possibility of multitudes banging on its doors claiming to be Jewish and daring it to turn them away. \u003cbr/\u003eAt first the Israeli government turned them down, but a coalition of American Jewish organisations took up their cause. \u003cbr/\u003eThey set up camps in Gondar, providing free schools, shelter and heath clinics and most important, a ticket out of Ethiopia.  \u003cbr/\u003eFor the Ethiopians at the centre of the controversy, Zionist ideology is secondary to what they see as their most pressing need: reunification with family already in Israel.  \u003cbr/\u003eTerualem Getnet has been waiting for 8 years to be relocated to Israel.\u003cbr/\u003eThree of her children, her mother and father are already there.\u003cbr/\u003eNow she's waiting for herself, husband and three youngsters to be allowed to join them.\u003cbr/\u003eShe says she wants \"to go to the 'Promised Land', where my children are. I am very sad because I haven't been able to go to the place where my children are, when they call me I am sad and I am crying a lot. I hope that soon I will get the same opportunity and be with them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e97% of the Beta Israels in Ethiopia have been separated from immediate family members.\u003cbr/\u003eAndebet Yimenu and his family abandoned their farmland 12 years ago thinking they'd be relocated to Israel soon afterwards. \u003cbr/\u003eFollowing a lengthy process most of his family were moved to Israel four years ago. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Yimenu, now aged 25,  had already turned 18 and had to stay behind and make an application independent of his parents. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says life is very tough for him \"I am responsible for a family but we have little money. When we were back in our village we had a farm and we owned property. Now here, we have to pay to rent a house, so it's hard.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIsrael has struggled for years to figure out which Ethiopians should be allowed in. \u003cbr/\u003eCenturies of intermarriage and a lack of documentation have made it extremely difficult to prove who is a Jew.\u003cbr/\u003eEach time Israel has attempted to end the immigration by emptying the Gondar camps and airlifting their inhabitants to Israel, thousands more have flooded into the camps, scrambling to prove their Jewishness. \u003cbr/\u003eThe argument now seems to have come down to numbers: Israel says the last of the Falasha Mura who qualify for immigration arrived in Israel in 2008, while the American Jewish Organisations, who took up the Beta Israel cause, say some 8,700 have been left behind.  \u003cbr/\u003eGetnet Awoke, a teacher who lives in Israel, is afraid the remaining Falash Mura in Gondar could lose vital services like the synagogue, feeding centre and school. \u003cbr/\u003eBut following last year's relocation of the 17,000 Falash Mura, most of the American Jewish Organisations' funding was cut. \u003cbr/\u003eAwoke says that he is \"sorry for the families who have been separated. I don't think the government of Israel would take these decisions if their own families were involved. I sometimes feel that it's because we're from the Third World and that's why they don't want to accept us.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe 'Jewish Agency', which is responsible for relocating Ethiopian Jews to Israel, says the Israeli Interior Ministry is currently deciding what to do with the 8,700 Falash Mura.\u003cbr/\u003eEstie Eyob, a representative of Jewish Agency in Ethiopia says it is a very complicated process to take these decision, and \"this is why it could take a considerable amount of time to get approved or not.\" \u003cbr/\u003eThose lucky enough to meet the criteria for immigration will have to undergo conversion to Orthodox Judaism after arriving in Israel.\u003cbr/\u003eThe government provides language and cultural lessons and money to buy a house. \u003cbr/\u003eNana, who moved to Israel two years ago, is still waiting for other family members to come over, \"my family and I have been separated nearly 14 years. 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