Ethiopian jews in israel

Lawmakers raise alarm over police treatment of Ethiopian community

During the session, Blue and White faction chair MK Pnina Tamano-Shata described the harassment and discrimination experienced by young members of the community at the hands of police officers.

|ByEFRAT FORSHER
MK Pnina Tamano-Shata speaks during a House committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on, December 29, 2025.
ETHIOPIAN JEWS take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem, in November 2025.

Zionism didn’t start in Europe, and Ethiopian Jews can prove it - opinion

For more than 2,500 years, Ethiopian Jewish leaders preserved Jewish law, ritual, and identity in one of the most isolated Jewish communities on Earth.

|BySHMUEL LEGESSE
ETHIOPIAN ISRAELIS gather in Jerusalem earlier this week, calling for immediate government action to expedite the aliyah of family members still stranded in Ethiopia.

The time for talking is over: Ethiopian Israelis need family reunification now - opinion

According to official estimates, over 7,000 people of Ethiopian Jewish descent remain in Ethiopia, most living in designated waiting areas in Gondar and Addis Ababa.

|BySHMUEL LEGESSE
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.

Goodman Fellowship Project Expands Opportunities for Ethiopian Students at TAU

Tel Aviv University launches Goodman Fellowship to boost Ethiopian Israeli student access, support, and success with major backing from Canadian foundation.

|ByLIOR NOVIK

Last Ethiopian aliyah flight of Operation Rock of Israel arrives

Activists for community have criticized the government for failing to bring all remaining members of the Falash Mura in Ethiopia to Israel, who number at least another 5,500.

JUNE 9, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
Ethiopian olim exiting the plane after touching down at Ben-Gurion Airport as part of Operation Rock of Israel..

Ethiopian-Jewish immigrants make aliyah to Israel despite airport closure

The Ethiopian immigrants touched down on Friday despite the underlying circumstances.

JUNE 9, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Ethiopian-Jewish immigrants arrive in Israel on Frebruary 12, 2021.

Ethiopian aliyah to Israel: Commemoration, discrimination - editorial

The memorial this year comes six years after mass protests by Jews of Ethiopian origin against racism in Israeli society.

JUNE 9, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
The ceremony honoring Ethiopians who died on the way to Israel.

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

MAY 10, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

Jerusalem Day: Ethiopian Israelis remember the 4000 who died in Sudan

On Monday, institutions across Israel will commemorate the victims who tried to make aliyah from Ethiopia, in an effort to highlight a side of Zionist history that doesn't often get told.

MAY 5, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Members of the Falashmura community receive their documents after arriving to the Immigration offices at the Ben Gurion airport, outside Tel Aviv on February 4, 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.

APRIL 21, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
A mikva, the Jewish ritual bath [Illustrative]

Jewish-Ethiopian scholarship and taking pride in Ethiopian heritage

While the ‘Generation of the Desert’ was slowly coming to terms with the reality of Israel most students would only meet an Ethiopian adult in a menial position. Language, in that sense, has great power and pride.

MARCH 25, 2021ByHAGAY HACOHEN
Ge’ez manuscript from the collection of the British Library. The scholar Amsalu Tefera claims 6,928 such manuscripts are in European collections after being taken from Ethiopia

Netanyahu, Clinton, Clooney celebrated Elie Wiesel's wife 90th birthday

To honor her living legacy and visionary work alongside her husbands, a virtual event was organized by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and the WIZO.

JANUARY 31, 2021BySARAH CHEMLA
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel arrives with wife, Marion Erster Rose, to attend the "100 Most Influential People In The World" gala hosted by Time Magazine in New York

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.

JANUARY 3, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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-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.

NOVEMBER 25, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
Ethiopian-Israeli activists are seen protesting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.