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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Falash Mura

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
Ethiopian Jews take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem on November 13, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
November 13, 2023, 11:44 pm
Ethiopian Israelis mark muted Sigd, as holiday overshadowed by war
Traditional Jerusalem ceremony overlooking city limited, with many instead celebrating holiday at absorption center in north where members of community from Sderot are relocated
By PHILISSA CRAMER
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 17, 2023, 5:29 am
Israel to review Ethiopia immigration policy amid increased fighting in country
Minister appoints former top army officer to oversee process and present his conclusions, having previously reportedly ruled out further rescue mission to Gondar
By ToI Staff
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 15, 2023, 11:00 am
Israel not planning further evacuations from Ethiopia amid fighting, says minister
Ofir Sofer reportedly tells activists there’s unlikely to be a repeat of last week’s extraction of 204 Israelis and Ethiopians eligible for citizenship
By Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff
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
Illustrative: Men read from the Torah scroll during prayers at the synagogue in Gondar, Ethiopia, on May 31, 2022. (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)
May 11, 2023, 2:33 pm
3 Ethiopians waiting to immigrate to Israel killed in Gondar fighting
Fatalities were among the thousands of prospective immigrants belonging to the group known as Falash Mura
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: Ethiopian immigrants arrive in Israel, on March 11, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 15, 2022, 6:02 pm
High Court rejects petition, allowing thousands of Ethiopians to immigrate to Israel
Injunction lifted on government plan to bring people with Israeli relatives, who are eligible for citizenship; immigration minister: ‘These immigrants waited for no reason’
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
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
Tedplach Bitao, 28, rejoices as she arrives in in Israel from Ethiopia on January 22, 2021. (Avi Hayun for Keren Hayesod)
January 22, 2021, 4:04 pm
With funding from Chinese backer, 162 Ethiopian immigrants arrive in Israel
6th flight of Operation ‘Tzur Yisrael’ arrives with financial support from entrepreneur and Keren Hayesod; minister hails ‘the return of our sons and daughters home to Israel’
By Lazar Berman
In this photo from the Jewish Agency, Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (left) and then-Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog (center) greet 119 new immigrants from Ethiopia at Ben Gurion Airport, May 21, 2020. (Shlomi Amsalem)
November 29, 2020, 4:43 pm
Immigration minister arrives in Ethiopia to airlift 500 Jews to Israel
Some 14,000 Ethiopians with Jewish roots are waiting to come to Israel, but government has so far approved just 2,000
By ToI Staff
Members of the Jewish Ethiopian community hold up photographs of their relatives outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on November 25, 2020, during a demonstration demanding to bring thousands of their remaining brethren from Ethiopia to Israel. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
November 25, 2020, 10:05 pm
Ethiopian Israelis beg government to airlift relatives from war-torn country
Rally outside PM’s office draws some 200 protesters; many hold up photos of family members who’ve been waiting years to immigrate
By ToI Staff
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
MK Pnina Tamano-Shata at a Blue and White party conference in Rehovot, February 18, 2020. (Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90)
September 6, 2020, 2:48 pm
Trailblazing minister battles to get things done in a do-nothing government
Pnina Tamano-Shata, Israel’s first-ever Ethiopian cabinet minister, has proven in recent months that a sustained political crisis can be a great time to effect change
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Ethiopian Israelis greet President Reuven Rivlin at a Sigd Celebration in Jerusalem on November 7, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
July 24, 2020, 6:59 am
New immigrants arrive from Ethiopia amid pandemic
Group of 34 arrivals, part of Falash Mura community approved to move to Israel months ago, immediately placed in isolation
By Marcy Oster
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
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