Isreal Interior Ministry demanded deposit of an Ethiopian Jew visiting ill mother
Monday September 3, 2018
IRIS GEORLETTE/MAARIV
"They said that that’s how it is, and did not want to allow him to enter at all. So we went to the doctor to present an assessment of her [the mother's] serious condition, and submitted it to the Ministry of Interior.”
"He [Caseh] is there 20 years, waiting for Aliyah, like everyone else.”
"We feel insulted. This is humiliation, racism. Were he French or American, they wouldn’t have done it. Three days after he arrived, his mother died. He barely got to speak to her. He has two more brothers in Ethiopia that didn’t get the chance to see their mother for the final time.”
The Population and Immigration authority responded, "This was a case of a tourist from Ethiopia who came for a limited time to participate in his mother’s funeral. Never was a different intent discussed. As a rule, a deposit is necessary only when a fear exists that [the tourist] may settle [in the country], which is what happened in this case.”
A Jewish man in Ethiopia named Kinda Mulo, 53 years old, passed away last week in the city of Gondar in Ethiopia where he awaited his Aliyah approval. Mulo was an active community member whose siblings live in Israel. Gondar does not have medical equipment to match that in Israel, and due to the delays in his approval, Mulo dies of his disease before completing his dream and reaching Israel.
Isreal Interior Ministry demanded deposit of an Ethiopian Jew visiting ill mother
Lalyn Caseh, 40 years old, married and father of four, is a member of the community of the remainder of Ethiopian Jews awaiting to complete aliyah. Caseh arrived in Israel under unfortunate circumstances – to visit his mother, who is suffering