Benjamin Netanyahu greets arrivals as part of pledge to bring all Ethiopians of Jewish lineage to Israel
A large delegation of Israeli officials welcomed the group, and Pnina Tamano-Shata, Israel’s first Ethiopian-born cabinet minister, travelled to Ethiopia to join them on the flight.
“My wife, Sara, and myself were standing there with tears in our eyes,” Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said at a welcoming ceremony. “This is the essence of our Jewish story, the essence of the Zionist story.”