Ethiopian-Israeli

Why Black Jews must be part of the global conversation on Israel - opinion

Why Black Jews are missing from the world’s most important conversations.

ETHIOPIAN JEWS take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday in Jerusalem last November. The God of Israel sees the heart, not the color of one’s skin, the writer affirms.
Nine-year-old Haymanot Kasau.

Haymanot Kasau's disappearance: Why Israel must fix how it handles missing children - opinion

 The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem

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

Ethiopian Jews take part in Sigd celebrations, November 2025

Sigd celebrations bring thousands of Ethiopian Israelis to Jerusalem


Jerusalem Day: Memorial for Ethiopian Jews takes place at Mount Herzl

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin both laid wreaths at the memorial event for Ethiopian Jews who perished on the journey to Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Reuven Rivlin at the memorial event for Ethiopian Jews who perished on the way to Israel, May 10th 2021.

Israeli state rabbi spreads racism in the name of Judaism - opinion

The rejection of Ethiopian-Israelis’ Jewish identities is antithetical to Israeli thinking of the past 40 years, including that of Israel’s leading rabbis.

AN ISRAELI ETHIOPIAN woman prays during a ceremony marking the holiday of Sigd, in Jerusalem in 2019.

Ethiopian Israeli suing rabbi for casting doubt on her Jewishness

According to the lawsuit, the mikveh attendant stayed at home for a month and a half after being shamed by Druckman due to the public embarassment he had caused her.

A mikva, the Jewish ritual bath [Illustrative]

Ethiopian immigrant joins Labor leadership race

Candidates also include MK, casino millionaire, adman and belly dancer

Yitzhak Time, candidate for leader of the Labor Party

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.

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-Israeli activists to return to demonstrations

The demonstration comes on the fifth anniversary of what they claim is the Netanyahu government's failure to bring a cohort of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

Ethiopian-Israelis in massive Tel-Aviv protest in memory of Yehuda Biagda

Deputy minister calls for Sigd to be celebrated by all Jews

‘We did not invent the wheel. We kept one of the most important days in the history of the people of Israel, no less than Yom Kippur’

Sigd holiday, November 16, 2020

Israel prepares for Ethiopian Jewish holiday of Sigd under lockdown

Sigd - a unique Ethiopian Jewish holiday marking the deep connection between the Ethiopian Jewish community and Jerusalem - will be celebrated on Monday.

AN ETHIOPIAN-ISRAELI spiritual leader participates in the main Sigd holiday prayer gathering at the Armon Hanatziv Promenade in Jerusalem last November.