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In reporting on the aliya conference in Ashdod in January, Ruth Eglash noted that “braving the pouring rain... hundreds of immigrants from the local Ethiopian community gathered outside to protest the government’s failure to approve for aliya some 9,000 Falash Mura still waiting in Ethiopia.” Eglash’s reference to “the pouring rain” brought back painful memories of a rainy day more than 10 years ago.

My daughter Rebecca and I visited the children’s cemetery in Abba Antonios, Ethiopia, during the spring of 1999.