Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party says it’s  agreed with its partners in the vulnerable coalition government that 1 300 Ethiopians would come this year and more would be considered later.

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Ethiopian Israelis staged a protest march in Jerusalem last month after the government cancelled plans to allow their relatives to join them saying it could not afford it.

They’re members of a community known as Falash Mura who are descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Two Likud lawmakers had announced that in protest they would no longer vote for the government in the Knesset, where it already held only a razor-thin majority  of one seat in the 120-member legislature.

The maverick parliamentarians have welcomed the coalition’s change of heart.

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