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Ethiopian Jews in plea to Israel

Ethiopia\'s dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, on Tuesday said their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them.\n\n\"We are suffering, people are dying, we have nothing. Three hundred people, at least, died only during the last year because of diseases or malnutrition,\" the community\'s leader Sisay Berhan told reporters.
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March 9, 2010

Ethiopia’s dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, on Tuesday said their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them.

“We are suffering, people are dying, we have nothing. Three hundred people, at least, died only during the last year because of diseases or malnutrition,” the community’s leader Sisay Berhan told reporters.

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