Ethiopian-Israeli

How 31-year-old rapper Teddy Neguse traded explosive rage for vulnerable truth

Neguse became the megaphone for a generation of young Ethiopian-Israelis growing up in the marginalized neighborhoods of Lod, giving a voice to their collective frustration and systemic alienation.

‘NOW, I realize that even if my sister gets annoyed with me, or I with her ... it’s a way of expressing love. We don’t know how to just say, ‘Hey, I missed you.’ It takes work.’
Members of the Tigrayan forces sit along a street as they patrol as tensions intensify after the forces launched a major offensive against the federal government in multiple locations, in Mekele, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, September 24, 2026.

Some 20 Israelis trapped in northern Ethiopia as combat in country intensifies - report

Natali Getahon, Tech-Career’s director of partnerships, addresses students.

Bridging the gap: How Tech-Career is opening hi-tech's doors to Ethiopian-Israelis

Rescue teams searching for 9-year-old Haymanut Kasau, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, February 28, 2024.

Students encouraged to bring red balloons to first day of school for missing child Haymanot Kasau


Jerusalem Day: Memorial for Ethiopian Jews takes place at Mount Herzl

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin both laid wreaths at the memorial event for Ethiopian Jews who perished on the journey to Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Reuven Rivlin at the memorial event for Ethiopian Jews who perished on the way to Israel, May 10th 2021.

Israeli state rabbi spreads racism in the name of Judaism - opinion

The rejection of Ethiopian-Israelis’ Jewish identities is antithetical to Israeli thinking of the past 40 years, including that of Israel’s leading rabbis.

AN ISRAELI ETHIOPIAN woman prays during a ceremony marking the holiday of Sigd, in Jerusalem in 2019.

Ethiopian Israeli suing rabbi for casting doubt on her Jewishness

According to the lawsuit, the mikveh attendant stayed at home for a month and a half after being shamed by Druckman due to the public embarassment he had caused her.

A mikva, the Jewish ritual bath [Illustrative]

Ethiopian immigrant joins Labor leadership race

Candidates also include MK, casino millionaire, adman and belly dancer

Yitzhak Time, candidate for leader of the Labor Party

Ethiopian immigration absorption policy trap: Equality or discrimination?

This trap is apparent in higher education policy where, through attempts to offer equitable collective support, there are deep discriminatory practices.

Members of the Falash Mura community from Ethiopia land in Israel as part of the second flight of the Rock of Israel operation.

Music underscores social message at Israeli-Ethiopian arts festival

“It doesn’t make any difference whether we were born here, speak Hebrew fluently and unaccented, or do the army, we are always looked upon differently because of our skin color.”

SINGER-SONGWRITER Aveva Dese tells her life story as part of the first-generation Ethiopians born in Israel.

Ethiopian-Israeli activists denounce PM for failure to fulfill aliyah vow

Activists are now also concerned that a military operation by the Ethiopian government in the northern province of Tigray could endanger the Falash Mura community in the northern city of Gondar.

Ethiopian-Israeli activists are seen protesting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Ethiopian-Israeli activists to return to demonstrations

The demonstration comes on the fifth anniversary of what they claim is the Netanyahu government's failure to bring a cohort of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

Ethiopian-Israelis in massive Tel-Aviv protest in memory of Yehuda Biagda

Deputy minister calls for Sigd to be celebrated by all Jews

‘We did not invent the wheel. We kept one of the most important days in the history of the people of Israel, no less than Yom Kippur’

Sigd holiday, November 16, 2020

Israel prepares for Ethiopian Jewish holiday of Sigd under lockdown

Sigd - a unique Ethiopian Jewish holiday marking the deep connection between the Ethiopian Jewish community and Jerusalem - will be celebrated on Monday.

AN ETHIOPIAN-ISRAELI spiritual leader participates in the main Sigd holiday prayer gathering at the Armon Hanatziv Promenade in Jerusalem last November.