JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Seventy-one Ethiopians arrived in Israel accompanied by lay leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America. After landing Thursday at Ben Gurion Airport, the new immigrants and the delegation of leaders were taken to an absorption center in Kiryat Gat. The mission traveled to Ethiopia to meet the remaining members of the community and visit the Jewish Community Center and school in Gondar before escorting the olim to Israel. In Israel, the delegation will discuss the future of Ethiopian immigrants with Jewish Agency and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee representatives.

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