Ethiopian in israel

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

The ruling cancels two sections of police procedure: Requiring ID based on generalized “concern” of an offense, and verifying a person’s details on the police computer without reasonable suspicion.

 The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem
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

 An infant from Ethiopia whose family was brought to Israel in Operation Moses receives medical treatment at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, January 1985.

'We Are Black Jews': The courageous journey of Ethiopian Jews to Israel - review

 THE ETHIOPIAN community in Israel serves as a vibrant link between the two nations. Here, the community celebrates the Sigd on the Haas Promenade in the shadow of the Old City, in November.

Ethiopian Amb. to 'Post': History between Ethiopia and Israel shapes relationship - interview


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.

Naftali Aklum

The New Queen of Sheba: engendering an open heart

New tome tells the story of Ethiopian Jews through illustrations and narrative

ISRAELIS OF Ethiopian descent commemorate counterparts who died during their immigration to the Jewish state, at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, 2016.

The story behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Despite the controversy, Ethiopia must build the dam river in order to meet the urgent development needs of its growing population.

ETHIOPIA’S GRAND Renaissance Dam undergoes construction work on the Nile River in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia, on  September 26.  (Tiksa Negeri/File Photo/Reuters)