Ethiopian Jews

Israel cannot demand unity while governing inequality - opinion

Israel asks citizens to fight together, to sacrifice together, and to carry the weight of war and uncertainty together, and yet it governs them as if they are not equal partners in that burden.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at the Knesset plenum.
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

View of the empty courtroom at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on July 13, 2025.

Carol Fesler appeal puts sentence in Rafael Edna hit-and-run case back before court

The wonders of Ethiopian cuisine

Haset: Bringing kosher Ethiopian food to Jerusalem - restaurant review


What is Sigd, the holiday of Beta Israel and Ethiopian Jews? - explainer

What exactly is the Jewish holiday of Sigd about? What are its origins? How is it celebrated in Ethiopia and Israel? And should all Jews celebrate it?

ETHIOPIAN-ISRAELI KESSIM celebrate the Sigd holiday in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv

Ethiopian Jewish holiday of Sigd gets a boost in the US with picture books and new resources

The wave of Ethiopian olim brought Sigd, which takes place 50 days after Yom Kippur and celebrates yearning for Israel, to the Jewish state.

Sigd holiday, November 16, 2020

We cannot plan our life

Sitting down with nonagenarian pianist and jazz singer Juanita Cohen Smith, who has kept her audiences hypnotized for nearly eight decades

 JUANITA IN concert at Tel Aviv’s Beit Ha’amudim, August 2022.

A tale of two aliyot - opinion

Ethiopian Jews and Ukrainian Jews make up the two biggest groups of olim this year. However, their reasons to do aliyah are different, and their Jewish experience is different.

 The writer poses with a community member at the Hatikva Synagogue in Gondar, Ethiopia.

Racism and social strife, not Iran, is Israel's biggest problem - Zena

Israeli anti-racism czar: “There is racism in Israel. Racism has aspects in common with terror. Everyone says Israel’s biggest problem now is the social conflict element, not Iran.”

 AWEKE KOBE ZENA: Seizing the opportunity.

Jewish Agency chairman Doron Almog returns to Ethiopia

Almog embarks on his first working visit to Ethiopia as Jewish Agency chairman and will visit the Jewish community centers in Gondar and Addis Ababa.

Almog (left) with the late prime minister Yitzchak Shamir + photo of olim from Ethiopia on the Tzur Israel operation.

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.