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People queue as Israelis are evacuated from the southern town of Sderot, near Israel's border with Gaza, October 15, 2023

It’s hard for evacuees, even harder if Ethiopian – this NGO can help

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

LIKUD MK Tsega Melaku (center) advances a bill in the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, last week, to expunge police records of Ethiopian Israelis arrested while protesting the police killing of Solomon Tekah in 2019. National Unity MK Pnina Tamano-Shata (right), former minister

A second chance for Ethiopian Israelis

By TSEGA MELAKU , RINA AYALIN-GORELIK , YOSEF ABRAMOWITZ

Police and rescue forces seen during a search for 9-year-old Kasau, in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 27, 2024.

Police search for missing nine-year-old Haymanot Kasau continues

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A man and a woman hold hands aloft in Hyde Park during a "Black Lives Matter" protest following the death of George Floyd who died in police custody in Minneapolis, London, Britain, June 3, 2020

‘Were you adopted?’ and other questions not to ask Jews of color

By Zerline Hughes Spruill

Ethiopian Jews land in Israel, June 1, 2022

Israelis are not European occupiers

By RONI FANTANESH MALKAI

In one click: the application that connects patients to professionals in the Amharic language

By YUVAL BAGNO/MAARIV

Thousands of Ethiopian Jews take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday on the Armon Hanatziv Promenade overlooking Jerusalem on November 23, 2022. The prayer is performed by Ethiopian Jews every year to celebrate their community's connection and commitment to Israel.

Ethiopian-Israelis celebrate Sigd holiday under the shadow of war

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA

The annual Jewish-Ethiopian holiday ceremony was canceled due to the war

By ZVIKA KLEIN , MAARIV

One country in the world is still living in 2016. Found out which

By Walla!

AWEKE KOBE ZENA: Seizing the opportunity.

Israel settles Amsalem dispute with anti-racism czar, will switch role

By MICHAEL STARR

THEN-FOREIGN MINISTER David Levy (left) meets with André Azoulay, the adviser of the Moroccan king, in 2000.

Grapevine August 24, 2023: Remembering Shimon Peres

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Members of the Ethiopian community and activists block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv during a protest for justice to 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was run over and killed in a car accident in Netanya, in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2023

Adana family to meet with district attorney amid hit-and-run protest

By MICHAEL STARR

THE WRITER poses with Jews awaiting aliyah, at a yeshiva set up in Gondar.

Israel must stop its racism and save Ethiopian Jews - opinion

By SHLOMO VILK

Members of the Jewish Ethiopian community and overs block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest demand justice for to 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was run over and killed in a car accident in Netanya, August 21, 2023.

Protesters block Ayalon road after the death of an Ethiopian child

By MAARIV ONLINE

Ethiopian Israelis protest for more aliyah outside of weekly cabinet meeting.

Israel appoints IDF reservist as envoy for Ethiopia aliyah crisis

ETHIOPIAN CHILDREN, whose roots trace back to Judaism, look out of a window at a Beta Israel school while awaiting immigration to Israel, in Gondar in 2007.

Ethiopian Jews demand Israel rescues thousands from war-torn Gondar

150 new Ethiopian immigrants arrive in Israel Monday, July 4, 2022.

Operation Tzur Israel reaches milestone: 5,000 Ethiopian olim reunited

Most of the Ethiopian olim aren't considered entitled for aliyah according to Israel's Right of Return law, but offered citizenship as first degree relatives of Israeli citizens. Many of them will begin a process of conversion to Judaism after arriving in Israel.

As a child of survivors, I see my parents in every Ethiopian immigrant to Israel

By MARK WILF/JTA