Pnina Tamano-Shata

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.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks at an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem. November 3, 2025.

Ben-Gvir instructs police to skip Knesset committee meeting on missing girl Haymanut Kassau

Nine-year-old Haymanot Kasau.

Nearly two year after disappearance: Police arrest suspect linked to missing girl Haymanut Kasau

MKs Pnina Tameno-Shete and Sharren Haskel.

Not someday: Israel is ready for a new woman prime minister now - opinion


Israel's Kamala Harris? Tamano-Shata Gantz's #2

Tamano-Shata is Israel's first Ethiopian-born cabinet minister.

PNINA TAMANO-SHATA: We are the generation that merited to be the one that returned to Zion, and we need to encourage aliyah because this is the home of all Jews.

Gantz: Our enemies will act regardless of our elections, and so will we

Concluding his weekly briefing, Gantz called on the Israeli public to "put ego aside and focus on unity."

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz walks in the Israeli Parliament during a vote on a bill to dissolve the Parliament at the Knesset, December 02, 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.

Pnina Tamano-Shata: From the desert to the Knesset

Tamano-Shata is a proud member of Beta Israel, the formal name for the community of Jews from Ethiopia.

Aliyah Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata

World officials, Jewish leaders in shock following Vienna terror attack

Leaders have strongly condemned the shooting.

Gunfire exchanges in Vienna

72 Georgian immigrants fulfill their dream of making aliyah

"The Jews of Georgia are one family. We are all together, both in sorrow and in joy."

72 immigrants arrive in Israel on the IFCJ and Jewish Agency flight amid the coronavirus lockdown October, 2020.

Aliyah of 2,000 Ethiopians approved by government

"It is time to connect the torn families, embrace them and integrate them in the best way here in Israel alongside their families."

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