Ethiopian women

Shaping memory through ceramics

Artist Enatnesh Yallow combines contemporary ceramics, painting, and traditional Ethiopian basket-weaving techniques to preserve and reinterpret her community’s cultural heritage

|ByALAN ROSENBAUM
'The old and the new’ combines traditional Ethiopian weaving with modern techniques.
MA’AYAN GRADUATES with Nishmat dean Ilana Hadad (L) and program director Dr. Esti Bar-El (R).

What Nishmat’s Ma’ayan program for Ethiopian women says about Israel’s future

As a board member of American Friends of Nishmat, and as someone whose family has proudly supported the institution for many years, I was privileged to witness the event.

|BySTEPHEN M. FLATOW
Mimi Biyadgilon.

Mimi ‘Mabrat’ Biyadgilon: The former village girl who has come a long way

For the last 20 years, the Biyadgilons have lived in Rishon Lezion, where Mimi now works for the municipality as a senior social worker.

|BySUSAN DE LA FUENTE
Ethiopian Jews take part in Sigd celebrations, November 2025

African Jews carried Zion before the world hijacked Zionism

"For thousands of years, Jews carried Zion in their hearts. This week, in a room full of Ethiopian women in Jerusalem, I watched what it looks like to carry Zion forward."

|BySACHA ROYTMAN DRATWA

Doing it his way

Ever since he first encountered it as a child in Ethiopia, Gideon Agaza has been fascinated by the camera. In ‘Our Way,’ an exhibition at the Eretz Israel Museum, he points it at his own people.

JANUARY 28, 2015ByBARRY DAVIS
An Israeli child

Baby miracle for 56-year-old Ethiopian immigrant

Following years of struggling to conceive, Ethiopian woman gives birth at 56.

JANUARY 26, 2015ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Former Ethiopian immigrant has baby at 56 at Kaplan Medical Center.