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Topic: Ethiopian immigrants

May 8, 2013
6:25 pm

State Comptroller Joseph Shapira presents his annual report to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and Knesset State Control Committee head Amnon Cohen on Wednesday, May 8 (photo credit: Knesset spokesperson)

‘Thousands of preventable deaths in Israeli hospitals’

Annual study shows basic hygiene lacking in health care facilities, slams unqualified teachers, exposes widespread failures in Ethiopian absorption

By Lazar Berman

April 16, 2013
2:13 pm

Yesh Atid MK Shimon Solomon (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Teshome Solomon’s arduous, triumphant trek to the Knesset

In Ethiopia, his parents gave him an Amharic name that means ‘he got promoted.’ He certainly did. Now Shimon Solomon is battling for the Ethiopian community, and against racism, as a member of parliament for Yesh Atid

By Raphael Ahren

April 2, 2013
5:12 am

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Yityish Aynaw, a 21-year old Ethiopian-Israeli who won Israel's Miss Israel national beauty pageant, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on March 21, 2013. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/FLASH90)

3 African-Israeli women hope to use their fame to bolster integration

Having overcome challenges themselves, a beauty queen, an actress and a singer aim to help others from immigrant communities and to showcase Israel’s diversity

By Ben Sales

February 28, 2013
2:19 pm

Yityish Aynaw, who immigrated to Israel at age 12 from Ethiopia, is crowned Israel's beauty queen on Wednesday, Feb. 27 (photo credit: Avishag Shar Yashuv/Flash90)

Coalition conundrums: End in sight?

The Hebrew media seems to push for a deal with rising political stars, Israel crowns first Ethiopian beauty queen, and culture minister comes under fire for Oscars buzzkill

By Ron Friedman

February 28, 2013
1:54 am

Yityish Aynaw, Miss Israel 2013 (photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Miss Israel is Ethiopian immigrant

Yityish Aynaw, who was entered into the competition by a friend, made aliya with her family at age 12

By Times of Israel staff

February 19, 2013
9:57 am

An Ethiopian Israeli, who asked not to be identified, is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem on February 4, 2012 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Ethiopian birth control revelations ignite debate

Government accused of deliberate effort to curb Ethiopian birth rate, but many see only negligence

By Tia Goldenberg

February 15, 2013
3:27 pm

The long march into the Israeli mainstream

The hardships that Ethiopian IDF recruits face signify that the path to integration will be long and arduous

By Ed Rettig

January 29, 2013
11:17 pm

Newly arrived Ethiopian immigrants at Ben Gurion Airport in December 2011 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israel changes birth-control policy for Ethiopian immigrants

Amid accusations of racism, Health Ministry instructs HMOs not to automatically renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera

By Asher Zeiger

December 30, 2012
12:51 am

Zahava Aregito Zagaya (right) speaks with Mekdes in Gorgora Buchara, her mother's village. Mekdes said he remembered Zahava's mother and grandparents and showed her here her grandfather was buried. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/ToI)

Back on the wings of eagles

Israeli teens journey to Ethiopia to walk in their parents’ footsteps

By Michal Shmulovich

December 23, 2012
1:45 pm

'Such statements are grave, and they have no place in the workplace.'

Israeli boss who mistreated, demeaned Ethiopian-born worker ordered to pay up

Court awards NIS 71,000 in compensation to Awaka Yosef, whose employer cut his salary and called him ‘kushi’

By Stuart Winer

December 9, 2012
2:18 pm

Ethiopian immigrants arrive in Israel with Operation Dove's Wings in October 2012 (photo courtesy of the Jewish Agency for Israel)

Ethiopian women claim Israel forced them to use birth control before letting them immigrate

Immigration Ministry and Joint Distribution Committee reject allegations as ‘nonsense’

By Asher Zeiger

December 9, 2012
2:12 pm

Ethiopian woman participating in a prayer service outside Jerusalem in 2011. A report alleges that Ethiopian women were coerced into taking long-term birth control before arriving in Israel (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch / Flash90)

Rallying, politicking and miracles

Mashaal sets foot in Gaza; the IDF may have already set foot in Syria; and a wounded veteran hopes for another miracle

By Yossi Nachemi

November 14, 2012
3:26 pm

Celebrating Sigd: The Ultimate Zionist Festival

Ethiopians in Israel remember how they remembered Jerusalem

By Judy Lash Balint

October 31, 2012
9:29 am

Young leaders of the Ethiopian anti-discrimination protest tent outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on April 15. (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

New Ethiopian rights party to run in upcoming elections

Ahim Anahnu (We are brothers) aims to combat discrimination

By Ilan Ben Zion

October 29, 2012
10:33 pm

240 Ethiopian immigrants flown to Israel

Jewish Agency’s Operation Dove’s Wings aims to bring all remaining Falash Mura to the country by October 2013

By Naama Barak

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