Ethiopian Jews

MK Tsega Melaku: Missing girl Haymanut Kasau ignored for nearly two years - interview

Melaku added that she distributed Kasau’s photo to fellow MKs "so they will remember: there is a kidnapped child, and nobody is talking about her."

A poster of nine-year-old Haymanut Kasau, who has been missing since 2023, seen on December 18, 2025
Rescue teams searching for 9-year-old Haymanut Kasau, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, February 28, 2024.

'We'll bring her back': Netanyahu vows personal involvement in case of missing girl Haymanut Kasau

Shmuel Legesse at his wedding at The Sephardic Temple of Cedarhurst in Cedarhurst, NY, June 8, 2014.

Black and Zionist: A voice from inside the right‑wing Jewish soul - opinion

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Studio Gursha: Pan-African fine dining reaches Tel Aviv - restaurant review


JFNA mission to accompany 215 Ethiopians on aliyah flight

In addition to more than $100 million in core funding they raise every year, Jewish Federations have launched a campaign of $9m. for the continuation of immigration from Ethiopia.

In the opening flight of Operation Rock of Israel, 316 members of the Falash Mura community from Ethiopia arrived in Israel and were greeted by officials including Benjamin Netanyahu.

Rock of Israel: Ethiopians fly home to the Jewish state

Surviving war, famine and the pandemic, Ethiopians make aliyah and come to Israel.

 Azanu Girmay Melese and her extended family kiss the ground at Ben-Gurion Airport on July 4.

The Orit is a rare Ethiopian version of the Bible. An Israeli family risked it all to retrieve one

In March, an unusual set of circumstances finally allowed an Ethiopian-Israeli family to be reunited with their "Orit", the Ethiopian version of the bible.

 Ayanawo Ferada Senebato, right, and his family shown in Ashkelon, Israel, holding an ancient Orit book that they retrieved near Gondar, Ethiopia, in February 2022.

Operation Tzur Israel: 150 Ethiopian immigrants arrive in Israel

Molokan: "This is a very great privilege. We have been waiting for many years to make aliyah and do not believe that this is happening. The first place I would like to see is Jerusalem." 

 150 new Ethiopian immigrants arrive in Israel Monday, July 4, 2022.

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.

Israel’s Falash Mura aliyah from Ethiopia: A painful 30-year saga

How did the Falash Mura immigration become a painful and protracted saga despite multiple Israeli governments’ pledges since 1992 to resolve it?

 Children of Falash Mura children help hand the washing outside their home in Gondar, Ethiopia, May 29, 2022.

Ethiopians: Another chapter of Israel's responsibility - opinion

The new Israelis, ranging in age from two months to the early eighties, have waited years, some decades, undergone a rigorous review process and are now fully vaccinated.

 TWO OF the newest immigrants from Ethiopia pondering through the jetliner window about the past and anticipating their future.

Operation Tzur Yisrael: 181 new immigrants land in Israel from Ethiopia

As part of this stage of the operation, 3,000 first-degree relatives of Ethiopian immigrants will be brought to Israel.

 Ethiopian Jews land in Israel, June 1, 2022

Ethiopian aliyah renews with 180 new immigrants to arrive next week

In total, 3,000 first-degree relatives of Ethiopian immigrants will be reunited with their families.

 New immigrants from Ethiopia land in Israel

Meet the oleh doctor helping Ethiopian Jews

Dr. Morris Hartstein has personally examined over 7,000 people and provided eye drops and glasses through donations and at his own expense.

 IN ACTION in Ethiopia: Eye checks.