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“Even before the pandemic, the condition of people here was not good, we don’t have real houses and most of the community does not have a job, so you can only imagine what our present condition is…”
New arrivals from nine different families had been housed in a camp in Gondar, were greeted at Ben-Gurion Airport by family members already in country and will be housed in several absorption centers, including at kibbutz in Jezreel Valley