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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Beta Israel

Liqa Kahenat Chief Kes Berko Tegegne reading from The Orit, at the National LIbrary of Israel, in a photgraph released on October 8, 2024. (Michael Zekri/NLI)
October 9, 2024, 5:42 pm
National Library announces digitization project of Beta Israel sacred manuscripts
Dozens of rare texts in Ge’ez, the ancient Semitic liturgical language used in Ethiopia, to be made available online to the public for the first time
By Gavriel Fiske
A Likud center member holds up a placard of Avraham Neguise in the primaries for the Likud party at the Tel Aviv Likud polling station on February 5, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
January 11, 2024, 7:43 am
Former MK Neguise’s candidacy as ambassador to Ethiopia stirs up his ‘missionary’ past
Within an Ethiopian-Israeli community fractured along religious lines, the former lawmaker’s nomination is refocusing attention on his little-known Christian chapter
By Canaan Lidor
Fekadu Abera speaks with Channel 12 from his hospital bed in Tel Aviv on September 3, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 5, 2023, 9:35 pm
Ethiopian Israeli says police at rally ignored his grave burns
Fekadu Abera, a former fighter in an elite IDF unit, recalls waiting for 20 minutes in agony as police told him to wait for an ambulance that never came
By Canaan Lidor
Ethiopian Jews scuffle with police during a protest urging the government to bring their family members to Israel due to fighting in Ethiopia, near the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 13, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 13, 2023, 6:47 pm
Ethiopian Israelis rally in Jerusalem, seeking increased immigration quota
Protest is part of the push to bring in thousands of Falasha, descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity
By Canaan Lidor
A member of the Ethiopian community celebrates upon arriving at Ben Gurion airport on March 11, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 31, 2023, 6:07 am
Shedding image as bystanders to history, Ethiopian Jews reclaim their exodus saga
Activists are highlighting the roles community leaders and others played in bringing the Beta Israel to Israel, seeking to combat racist attitudes and empower Ethiopian youth
By Jessica Steinberg
Ethiopian Jews arrive in Israel waving Israeli flags in this still from the documentary 'With No Land.' (Courtesy of the Other Israel Film Festival)
November 27, 2021, 10:24 am
Before the airlifts, Ethiopian Jews did the heavy lifting to get out of Africa
Documentary ‘With No Land,’ featured at the Other Israel Film Festival earlier this month, puts long-overdue focus on the resilient immigrant community rather than its ‘saviors’
By Rich Tenorio
An Ethiopian Israeli woman holds pictures of relatives as she protests in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem, Monday, March 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
September 10, 2020, 9:17 pm
As Israel okays some Ethiopian immigrants, thousands more ‘face disaster’
Funds to feed families waiting years in Addis, Gondar are drying up because of COVID-19, with malnutrition rampant; Aliya Minister Tamano-Shata urges to honor 2015 airlift decision
By Sue Surkes
Ethiopian immigrants shortly after landing at Ben Gurion Airport, March 24, 2020. (Michael Dimenstein/ GPO)
July 3, 2020, 1:29 pm
Government weighs formation of committee to probe Ethiopian immigration delays
Initiative pushed for by deputy minister Yevarkan as some 8,000 Ethiopians, separated from their families for over 20 years, wait in Ethiopia for Israel to allow them to immigrate
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Members of Ethiopia's Jewish community protest the Israeli government's decision not to allow all of them to emigrate at the synagogue in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, November 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)
March 18, 2020, 3:59 pm
Citing coronavirus fears, Israel suspends immigration of 250 Ethiopians
Immigration ministry spokesperson claims Prime Minister’s Office nixed flights for health reasons; former MK Avraham Neguise says immigration from other countries is unhindered
By Lisa Klug
Ethiopian Falash Mura arrive at the Ben Gurion airport, outside Tel Aviv on August 28, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 19, 2020, 12:53 am
PM says first of 400 new immigrants from Ethiopia set to arrive next week
Plane with some 40 members of Falash Mura community to land in coming days, Netanyahu says, as Likud seeks to woo Ethiopian Israeli voters ahead of March 2 vote
By ToI Staff
Members of the Falash Mura community reunite with their families at the Ben Gurion airport, outside Tel Aviv on February 4, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 9, 2020, 8:21 pm
Cabinet approves plan to bring 400 Ethiopian Jews to Israel
Ministers back measure to airlift Falash Mura members despite opposition from attorney general, who argued move could be seen as campaign ploy targeting Ethiopian-Israeli voters
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ethiopian religious leaders, in the Israeli town of Yavne, prepare for a large demonstration against their mistreatment in Israeli society, June 22, 2015. (FLASH90)
January 20, 2020, 12:40 am
Top state rabbinical body reinforces ruling that Ethiopian Jews are Jewish
Decision comes to counter lingering discrimination, doubts of Jewishness, that have continued four decades after then-chief rabbi ruled Ethiopia’s Beta Israel community are Jews
By ToI Staff
A still from the film 'The Fig Tree' by Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker Aalam-Warqe Davidian. (Courtesy Menemsha Films)
August 9, 2019, 2:37 am
Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker shines the camera on life her community left behind
As other films focus on spectacular rescue missions for Ethiopia’s Beta Israel Jews, Aalam-Warqe Davidian presents a dramatic true-to-life story about leaving home
By Rich Tenorio
Ethiopia Berihe, 40, next to her craft stand at the entrance to Wolleka village, Gondar, Ethiopia, on April 24, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90).
April 26, 2016, 2:22 pm
How a village left behind by Jews in Ethiopia became a top tourist draw
Wolleka Falasha village, once home to Ethiopian Jews known for their craftsmanship, is now a kitschy visitors’ spot, but the residents proudly preserve its Jewish heritage
By Melanie Lidman
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