A group of Ethiopian immigrants have asked the government to help them establish a farming community in the south. The group will meet next month with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Minister for the Development of the Negev and Galilee Shimon Peres.
MK Marina Solodkin (Kadima), who is helping the immigrants to develop the initiative, said the community would be geared towards immigrants who arrived from Ethiopia when they were age 35 or older who want to work in agriculture. The initiative calls for hundreds of Ethiopian families to be settled in the new community within five years. According to Solodkin, the project will cost over one billion shekels.
MK Marina Solodkin (Kadima), who is helping the immigrants to develop the initiative, said the community would be geared towards immigrants who arrived from Ethiopia when they were age 35 or older who want to work in agriculture. The initiative calls for hundreds of Ethiopian families to be settled in the new community within five years. According to Solodkin, the project will cost over one billion shekels.