{"id":278414,"date":"2019-06-08T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnZvYW5ld3MuY29tL2EvYWJvdXQtOC0wMDAtZXRoaW9waWFuLWpld3Mtd2FpdGluZy10by1pbW1pZ3JhdGUtdG8taXNyYWVsLzQ5NTA5MDkuaHRtbNIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:19:00","slug":"voa-reported-about-8000-ethiopian-jews-were-still-waiting-to-immigrate-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278414","title":{"rendered":"VOA reported about 8,000 Ethiopian Jews were still waiting to immigrate to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Voice of America reported that roughly 8,000 Ethiopian Jews were still waiting for immigration to Israel, keeping pressure on Israeli governments that had already brought large communities through earlier airlifts and later family reunification waves.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-263547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Immigration-on-the-top-of-agenda-for-Australia-visit-of-Germany-President-730x486.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"VOA reported about 8,000 Ethiopian Jews were still waiting to immigrate to Israel\" \/>\n<p>The waiting list sat inside a long diaspora story about who qualifies as Jewish under Israeli law, how fast aliyah moves, and how Ethiopian Israelis push for relatives still stuck in Ethiopia or transit camps.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as diaspora archive, the VOA report dates the mid-2019 size of the remaining Ethiopian Jewish immigration backlog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/about-8-000-ethiopian-jews-waiting-to-immigrate-to-israel\/4949990.html\">Voice of America<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 8,000 Ethiopian Jews Waiting to Immigrate to Israel&nbsp;&nbsp;Voice of AmericaAbout 8000 Ethiopian Jews want to move to Israel and join their families already living there. But they accuse the Israeli government of delaying their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":263547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Immigration-on-the-top-of-agenda-for-Australia-visit-of-Germany-President-730x486.jpg?fit=730%2C486&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aqy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755078,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278414\/revisions\/755078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}