Ethiopian Jews are staging a hunger strike to pressure the Israeli parliament into continuing to fund reunion by migration of Ethiopian Jews with family members in Israel.
In 1991 Israel evacuated 15,000 Jewish people from then conflict torn Ethiopia, separating many families in the process.
However the Israeli parliament has recently put it’s ongoing family reunification program on hold, an action that the head of the Israeli parliament's Absorption and Diaspora (DI-AS-PRA) Committee has described as discriminatory.