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.

 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

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

 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


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

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

Sigd - A sign of social and personal vaccination

The Sigd holiday enables Ethiopian Jews to do communal introspection, become stronger, unite and to dream of a better future: a mutual and spiritual future in Jerusalem.

Thousands of Ethiopian Israelis celebrate the holiday of Sigd on November 27, 50 days after Yom Kippur, on Jerusalem’s Haas Promenade

COVID-19 restrictions threaten role of Ethiopian Jewish holiday in Israel

Sigd is being observed in a scaled-down fashion this year.

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

Ethiopian Jewry's biblical texts are disappearing. TAU is saving them.

The students who have just begun their studies in the 2020-2021 academic year are all Ethiopian Israelis with Bachelor's degrees, who are eager to preserve and study their heritage.

Einalem Mengesto, who works at the Faitlovitch Collection.

Ethiopian-Israelis worry that airlift of loved ones won’t get off ground

Many call Netanyahu plan ‘campaign promise’ that highlights lack of serious immigration policy

Youth awaiting immigration to Israel practice social distancing outside the Hatikvah Synagogue in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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.

2,000 Jewish Ethiopians approved to make aliyah, who will be left behind?

Will their child/sibling/parent be included in the “coveted list” of 2,000 immigrants or will yet another year go by of unbearable longing?

MEMBERS OF the Falash Mura community attend morning prayer services in the synagogue in Gondar, Ethiopia, in 2016.

Will a new plan to complete Falash Mura aliyah face obstacles? – analysis

So many plans and promises have been made on this issue that have not been fulfilled that the minister’s announcement has been met instead with skepticism that this could yet be another false dawn.

Members of the Falash Mura Jewish Ethiopian community attend a prayer service at the HaTikvah Synagogue in Gondar, northern Ethiopia, September 30, 2016