Ethiopian women

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.

MA’AYAN GRADUATES with Nishmat dean Ilana Hadad (L) and program director Dr. Esti Bar-El (R).
Mimi Biyadgilon.

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

Ethiopian Jews take part in Sigd celebrations, November 2025

African Jews carried Zion before the world hijacked Zionism

 Nine-year-old Haymanot Kasau. The police released the image on February 26, 2024.

Kasau's disappearance cannot be forgotten, must be viewed as a kidnapping - editorial


Income for Ethiopian citizens lags behind Israeli average, study finds

Ethiopian Israelis earn thousands of shekels less per month than the average earned by Israelis overall, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies says

Members of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel dance during a ceremony marking the holiday of Sigd

#46 Adenko Sebhat-Haimovich, Esther Tapeta Gard - Ethiopian trailblazers

The two women are the first female Ethiopian judges to be selected to serve the nation.

Esther Tapeta Gardi (L) and Adenko Sebhat – Haimovich (R)

Israeli doctors give the gift of sight

Ayana, 3, is one of some 3,000 Ethiopians who have been cured of eye disease by an Israeli medical team

Morris Kahn and Dafna Jackson with Ayana

Ethiopian Israeli women appointed judges

Although there is no shortage of Ethiopian-Israeli lawyers, none had previously reached the bench.

NEWLY APPOINTED Judge Ednaki Sebhat Haimowitz shakes hand with President Reuven Rivlin yesterday at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.

Ethiopian aliya resumes as first group arrives in Israel

Tears of happiness were shed Sunday night as some of those families were reunited after having been apart for as long as ten years.

Ethiopian olim arrive in Israel

Ethiopia lacks a model of leadership

THE LOCAL independent Ethiopian citizens’ news agencies are reporting outside the country that there is a huge popular mobilization against the government.

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom

US senators visit Ramle center for Ethiopian youth

Accompanied by US Ambassador Dan Shapiro and Likud MK Avraham Neguise, the senators toured the outreach center, met with staff and shared a traditional Ethiopian meal.

Senator Cory Booker and Tim Scott take a selfe with Ramla youth.

'Am ehad'

The fruit of one woman’s passionate efforts, the Pendant Project’s mission of unity involves Ethiopian immigrants crafting jewelry for mothers of fallen IDF soldiers.

The pendant designed and created by the Megemeria students and given to the mothers of 72 IDF soldiers who fell in Operation Protective Edge, as well as the mothers of the three murdered yeshiva students. The words ‘Am ehad,’ one people, are engraved in Hebrew and Amharic

Ethiopian outcry

Journalist and social activist Tsega Melaku anticipated the cauldron of young Ethiopian protest that has just bubbled over; Now, she explains why we are only at the beginning of the chaos.

Siddartha Kaul (center) with staff and students at Kfar Neradim.

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.

An Israeli child