JERUSALEM (AP) -- After years of languishing in makeshift shelters in the Horn of Africa, the final remnants of an Ethiopian community claiming Jewish descent received permission Sunday to move to Israel.

Israel's Cabinet voted to allow 7,846 Ethiopians to immigrate to the Jewish state over the next four years - announcing it would open its gates to Ethiopian immigration one last time, taking them in gradually to give them the best chance of acclimating to their new home.

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