Immigrant Absorption Minister: 'Ethiopian Immigrants Should Be Grateful To Israel'

Immigrant Absorption Minister and Yisrael Beitenu MK Sofa Landver said on Wednesday that Ethiopian immigration representatives in the Knesset should be grateful to Israel.

Landver made the comments during an emergency session held by the Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs to investigate the issue of discrimination against Ethiopians in Kiryat Malachi. She was responding to an Ethiopian representative, Gadi Desta, who told the MKs that "apartheid" was taking place.

The emergency session was convened against the backdrop of a news report that local homeowners' committees in Kiryat Malachi consistently refuse to sell or rent property to Ethiopians.