Ethiopian in israel

Israel must prepare its Joshua Generation for the post-Netanyahu era - opinion

Israel has become a military, technological, and economic powerhouse. Yet as its strategic strength has reached historic heights, its international legitimacy has increasingly come under attack.

THE KNESSET during a meeting on December 24, 2025.
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu at the state memorial ceremony for Ethiopian Jews who perished on their journey to Israel.

Netanyahu condemns racism against Ethiopians, decries Zalka murder at state memorial ceremony

 The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem

High Court of Justice strikes down police ID-check procedures due to racial profiling

Veteran dance troupe Beta Ensemble features in the Maharen-Neh production alongside Dege Feder and Zvika Hizkias.

Artful Ethiopia: Israeli artists with Ethiopian roots get a chance to shine in Jerusalem


300 Ethiopian immigrants the first to make aliyah to Israel in 2021

The government decided in 2015 to help the last remaining Jews in Ethiopia make aliyah.

New Ethiopian immigrants are seen at Ben-Gurion Airport on one of the first aliyah flights of the new year, on January 1, 2021.

Ethiopian immigration absorption policy trap: Equality or discrimination?

This trap is apparent in higher education policy where, through attempts to offer equitable collective support, there are deep discriminatory practices.

Members of the Falash Mura community from Ethiopia land in Israel as part of the second flight of the Rock of Israel operation.

Music underscores social message at Israeli-Ethiopian arts festival

“It doesn’t make any difference whether we were born here, speak Hebrew fluently and unaccented, or do the army, we are always looked upon differently because of our skin color.”

SINGER-SONGWRITER Aveva Dese tells her life story as part of the first-generation Ethiopians born in Israel.

Reuniting Ethiopian families: Operation Zur Israel begins

In October, the Israeli government passed a resolution to reunite 2,000 Ethiopians with their families living in Israel.

Maru Zawdu, Social Worker and Deputy Director, Canaan-Meron Absorption Center, Safed conducting an activity with newly arrived Ethiopian children at a Jewish Agency absorption center.

Ethiopian-Israeli activists denounce PM for failure to fulfill aliyah vow

Activists are now also concerned that a military operation by the Ethiopian government in the northern province of Tigray could endanger the Falash Mura community in the northern city of Gondar.

Ethiopian-Israeli activists are seen protesting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Ethiopian arts festival Sigdiada endures online

Sigdiada started in 2012, and this year it marks its ninth edition.

Some of the participants in Sigdiada.

New website seeks to connect Israeli society with Sigd holiday

Stories of the Ethiopian Aliyah are covered with 17 members of the community recounting their harrowing experience as well.

Sigd holiday, November 16, 2020

Outstanding soldier, caught between two cultures

Ethiopian, Bedouin, officer of distinction: Hadas Daniel’s exceptional journey

HADAS DANIEL: No identity crisis.

Gov't to vote on bringing 2,000 of Ethiopia's Falash Mura to Israel

Netanyahu first proposed the initiative of actively helping members of the Falash Mura community reach Israel in 1997.

Members of the Falash Mura community attend a prayer service at the Hatikva Synagogue in Gondar, northern Ethiopia, in 2016

An ancient community celebrates Simhat Torah

Isolated for centuries from the rest of the Jewish world, Ethiopian Jews did not have an Oral Torah prior to making aliyah, and thus they did not celebrate Simhat Torah.

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