Ethiopian-Israeli

What Rabbi Jonathan Sacks tried to teach us before October 7 - opinion

Sacks dedicated his life to teaching that covenant is stronger than politics, and that Jewish survival depends not on uniformity but on mutual responsibility.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
Eyal Wahab makes a habit of creating musical instruments from discarded objects.

Eyal Wahab reconnects with Yemenite heritage at Jerusalem’s Hullegeb festival

Abate Berihun, sax player. (see Tuesday).

Jerusalem highlights: June 19-25

ETHIOPIAN JEWS take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday in Jerusalem last November. The God of Israel sees the heart, not the color of one’s skin, the writer affirms.

Why Black Jews must be part of the global conversation on Israel - opinion


Nearly half of all racism complaints in Israel filed by Arabs, Ethiopians

A recent survey found 94% of Arab-Israelis have experienced racist labeling.

Ethiopian-Israelis and supporters take part in a protest against police violence and discrimination following the death of 19-year-old Ethiopian, Solomon Tekah who was shot and killed in Kiryat Haim by an off-duty police officer, in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2019

Ethiopian NGO marks win as police reform ID rules

The move follows the High Court of Justice's nixing of police demanding that ID be produced without reasonable suspicion.

Police check the ID of a driver, at a checkpoint put in place during Israel's second lockdown, September 2020.

Singer-songwriter Oshi Masala to perform at Hullegeb Ethiopian arts festival

Singer-songwriter Oshi Masala is on the roster of this year’s Hullegeb Ethiopian-Israeli Arts Festival, which runs December 22-29 at various venues around Jerusalem.

Oshi Masala

Ethiopia and the legend of the lost ark

A longstanding religious legend in Ethiopia describes how the Ark of the Covenant was brought there 3,000 years ago by a man named Menelik, the son of the Queen of Sheba and Israel’s King Solomon.

ark of the covenant

The Beta Israel: The return of a lost tribe

The history of Ethiopian Jewry goes back millennia. For almost 2,000 years, the Beta Israel had their own community – even their own kingdom and army – in the Simien Mountains region of Ethiopia.

Ethiopian Jews stream out of a Hercules airplane after rescue in Operation Solomon

The saga of Ethiopian aliyah

In total, 8,000 Ethiopian Jews, or Beta Israel, were brought on aliyah to Israel from Sudan in 1984 and would be followed by tens of thousands more in 1991's Operation Solomon.

 ETHIOPIANS ARRIVE on aliyah at Ben-Gurion Airport earlier this year. Ethiopian aliyah constitutes a crucial moral issue for the Jewish people.

Israel must back democratic Ethiopian gov’t - opinion

Israel, as a friendly nation, continues to be a staunch supporter of peace and stability in Ethiopia. 

 FATUMA HUSSEIN, 65, sits in a shelter with family at a camp for the internally displaced due to the fighting between the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), last month in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.

What does the Ethiopian 'Sigd' holiday signify?

Once in Israel, Sigd quickly found a place in the Ethiopian jewish community’s life.

AN ISRAELI ETHIOPIAN woman prays during a ceremony marking the holiday of Sigd, in Jerusalem in 2019.

74-year-old Ethiopian Israeli murdered in May deserves justice, protestors say

Some 250 people demonstrated outside of the government meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday demanding justice for the murder of 74-year-old Ethiopian Israeli Destao Bisset.

PROTESTERS gather in Tel Aviv against police violence and discrimination following the death of 19-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli Solomon Tekah.

Gov't approves NIS 156 million budget for Ethiopian-Israeli integration

Aliyah and Integration Minister Tamano-Shata also hopes to bring 3,000 of those remaining in Ethiopia to Israel by the end of 2022, as part of the “Rock of Israel” operation she initiated last year.

New Ethiopian immigrants are seen at Ben-Gurion Airport on one of the first aliyah flights of the new year, on January 1, 2021.