Ethiopian-Israeli

Why PM Netanyahu should elevate Gabi Worku - opinion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a test larger than one candidate and more revealing than another campaign speech: Will Likud place Gabi Worku in a realistic position on its Knesset list?

Likud primaries held on Monday.
People at polling station during the Likud party internal elections in Jeursalem, July 27, 2026.

As Netanyahu weighs reserved slots, officials consider how party list will change prior to election

REUVEN WABASHAT, Israel’s chief rabbi of the Ethiopian community, is seen in Jerusalem in 2018.

Could an Ethiopian Israeli become prime minister, president, or chief rabbi? - opinion

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

What Rabbi Jonathan Sacks tried to teach us before October 7 - opinion


Emunah: Zionist women providing support in Israel for over 80 years

The Zionist religious women’s organization’s accomplishments in Israel have taken many forms over the years, since it was established over 80 years ago.

 AMONG THE students who graduate from the Emunah high schools are girls from the Ethiopian Israeli community.

Israel's first Ethiopian MK recalls his career, accomplishments

Addisu Messele: "We proved that anything is possible, that we are an integral part of Israeli society, and that we deserve to be in positions of power and influence."

 ADDISU MESSELE , late ‘90s: Speech people remember to this day.

Jerusalem College of Technology launches new BA course for women

The program could affect the current imbalance between gender representation in Israel’s business world

 A sketch of the upcoming Tal Campus expansion

Nearly half of all racism complaints in Israel filed by Arabs, Ethiopians

A recent survey found 94% of Arab-Israelis have experienced racist labeling.

Ethiopian-Israelis and supporters take part in a protest against police violence and discrimination following the death of 19-year-old Ethiopian, Solomon Tekah who was shot and killed in Kiryat Haim by an off-duty police officer, in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2019

Ethiopian NGO marks win as police reform ID rules

The move follows the High Court of Justice's nixing of police demanding that ID be produced without reasonable suspicion.

Police check the ID of a driver, at a checkpoint put in place during Israel's second lockdown, September 2020.

Singer-songwriter Oshi Masala to perform at Hullegeb Ethiopian arts festival

Singer-songwriter Oshi Masala is on the roster of this year’s Hullegeb Ethiopian-Israeli Arts Festival, which runs December 22-29 at various venues around Jerusalem.

Oshi Masala

Ethiopia and the legend of the lost ark

A longstanding religious legend in Ethiopia describes how the Ark of the Covenant was brought there 3,000 years ago by a man named Menelik, the son of the Queen of Sheba and Israel’s King Solomon.

ark of the covenant

The Beta Israel: The return of a lost tribe

The history of Ethiopian Jewry goes back millennia. For almost 2,000 years, the Beta Israel had their own community – even their own kingdom and army – in the Simien Mountains region of Ethiopia.

Ethiopian Jews stream out of a Hercules airplane after rescue in Operation Solomon

The saga of Ethiopian aliyah

In total, 8,000 Ethiopian Jews, or Beta Israel, were brought on aliyah to Israel from Sudan in 1984 and would be followed by tens of thousands more in 1991's Operation Solomon.

 ETHIOPIANS ARRIVE on aliyah at Ben-Gurion Airport earlier this year. Ethiopian aliyah constitutes a crucial moral issue for the Jewish people.

Israel must back democratic Ethiopian gov’t - opinion

Israel, as a friendly nation, continues to be a staunch supporter of peace and stability in Ethiopia. 

 FATUMA HUSSEIN, 65, sits in a shelter with family at a camp for the internally displaced due to the fighting between the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), last month in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.