Fifty-nine Ethiopian immigrant youths on Sunday began a march from the Yifat immigrant absorption center in Arad to Be’er Sheva to demand that they be allowed to appear before rabbinical conversion courts for final conversion exams.

The youths have waited more than a year and a half to be summoned for conversion tests at the rabbinical courts to complete their conversions. Converting would allow the youths to change their status from permanent residents to citizens of Israel. (Haaretz)