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How One Brave Woman Rescued An Ethiopian Slave

April 18, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Steve Lipman Traveling around Ethiopia in late 1991, at the end of the African country’s civil war, was unsafe for anyone. It presented special risks for a woman traveling alone, a foreigner, a white person in the northern hilly region … read more »

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Ethiopia’s Lost Jews

March 30, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Abdul Mohammed The coercive eviction of Ethiopia’s Beta Israel community was an act of societal vandalism, whose stated justifications of hunger and religious discrimination are false. The treatment of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel has been at best shabby … read more »

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Beta Israel: Snapshots Of The Ethiopian Jewish Community

March 25, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

For South African photojournalist Ilan Ossendryver, photographing the Ethiopian Jewish community, also known as Beta Israel, started out professional but ended up personal. His decades-long body of work is now represented in the exhibit “Beta Israel: Ethiopian Jews and the … read more »

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President Obama Meets with First-Ever Ethiopian Crowned Miss Israel

March 22, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

  Daniel Estrin Israel is putting its best face forward for President Obama, and what better face to put forward for America’s first black president than Israel’s first black beauty queen? The newly crowned Miss Israel is an Ethiopian Jewish … read more »

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Ethiopia’s lost Jews

March 18, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Abdul Mohamed The coercive eviction of Ethiopia’s Beta Israel community was an act of societal vandalism, whose stated justifications of hunger and religious discrimination are false. The treatment of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel has been at best shabby … read more »

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Ethiopians Demand Compensation perished families en route to Israel

March 15, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

The Organization for the Memory of Jews who perished in Sudan on their Way to Zion, a group representing Ethiopian Jews who were brought to Israel during 1984’s Operation Moses rescue, has filed a petition with Israel’s High Court of … read more »

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Ethiopian-Israeli Women crowned Miss Israel, hopes to alter negative Israel and Ethiopian relations

March 13, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Ethiopian Jews have historically faced racism in Israel, with thousands taking to the streets in January of last year to protest the treatment of Ethiopian immigrants in the country. Now, the country is confronted by a beautiful contradiction of this … read more »

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How To Put The Ethiopian-Israeli Birth Control Controversy To Rest

March 13, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Emily L. Hauser, Daily Breast Last week Haaretz corrected its reporting of a story I covered in these pages: Ethiopian-Israeli women have been saying for years that they’ve been injected with Depo-Provera (long-acting birth control) by state-mandated health providers … read more »

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Israel accused of giving Ethiopians birth control without consent

February 20, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

AP JERUSALEM – Accusations that Israel deliberately tried to curb birthrates among Ethiopian immigrants have reopened a debate over discrimination against the group — highlighting the state’s uneasy relationship with a community that has yet to fully settle into the … read more »

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Ethiopian women and birth control: when a scoop becomes a smear

January 30, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Allison Kaplan Sommer,haaretz The more the story about Ethiopian women who were given birth control shots was repeated, the more warped and distorted it became. The story of the dramatic drop in the birthrates of the Ethiopian Israeli community … read more »

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Israeli government imposition of contraception on Ethiopian Jews causes 50% drop in birth-rate

January 30, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Samira Shackle, middleeastmonitor Birth rates among Israel’s Ethiopian Jewish community have fallen by nearly 50 per cent in the last 10 years. Now, for the first time, a government official has acknowledged that women of Ethiopian origin were being injected … read more »

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Without child: Temporary sterilization of Ethiopian women in Israel may explain halving of birth rate

January 27, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

With the election of the first female Ethiopian Israeli Jew, Pnina Tamano-Shata, to the Knesset in last week’s polls, the community of more than 150,000 finally had their champion in parliament. It is something the minority had been hoping for, … read more »

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New Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel Experience Their First Ever Snowfall

January 9, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By: Benjamin Rutland Hundreds of Ethiopian Olim (Immigrants), who are living in The Jewish Agency for Israel absorption centers in Safed, experienced snow for the first time ever on January 9th. The children pictured headed outside to play in the … read more »

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The great Ethiopian divide

December 28, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Don Futterman, haaretz Ethiopians are careful to hide the friction between Beta Yisrael and Falashmura, for fear it could damage the community’s image. The Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel is divided between the Beta Yisrael and the Falashmura (some … read more »

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New Ethiopian immigrants to Israel Welcome by Hamas Explosive

November 21, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Judy Maltz, haaretz New immigrants from Ethiopia get a severe reality check mere days after their arrival in Israel as bombs fall around their absorption center. Despite the shock, they’re adapting quickly and looking to pitch in. Roostu Bayene … read more »

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240 new aliyah from Ethiopia received a warm welcome

October 31, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

A charter flight of some 240 Ethiopian Jews that landed in Israel was described by the Israeli government as the launch of the final stage of mass immigration from Ethiopia Members of the Israel and Overseas Committee of UJA Federation … read more »

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Ethiopian demonstrators claim double standard on right to protest outside Netanyahu’s home

April 22, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

The authorities say Ethiopian Israelis’ protest camp near the Prime Minister’s Residence is disturbing the neighbors. Funny, they never said that about other demonstrations. For nearly two years now the sidewalk outside attorney David Hagoel’s home in Jerusalem has been … read more »

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Used by Israel’s underworld, one Ethiopian immigrant becomes crime boss

April 17, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Yaniv Kubovich Israeli crime bosses have found a new source of cheap labor: desperate Ethiopian immigrants. One of them decided to aim higher – and be a boss himself, according to testimony gathered by Rehovot police. On August 15, … read more »

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Ethiopian immigrants earning 30%-40% less than Arabs

March 5, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Hila Weisberg Ethiopian immigrants without work experience are worst-paid group, unseating Arab Israelis, a new study finds. Ethiopian immigrants without work experience have unseated Arab Israelis for the title of the lowest-earning group in Israeli society, a new study … read more »

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Ethiopian Israelis plan to take protest to New York

January 27, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Organizer is now awaiting final permits from the New York police, and hopes the demonstration will take place early next month. As Ethiopian activists expressed satisfaction over Wednesday’s demonstration in Tel Aviv, a new battle line has emerged for Ethiopian … read more »

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Ethiopian Jews are not alone – they are the latest in a long line of victims of Israeli intolerance

January 26, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

“Tottenhams are on their way to Auschwitz,(Seig Heil,) Hitler’s going to gas them again.” On International Holocaust Day, I find it shocking that these offensive chants, accompanied by hissing in imitation of gas chambers, have become part of Britain’s football … read more »

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Ethiopian man stabs wife to death and then hangs himself

January 24, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

A man stabbed his wife to death late Monday night and hanged himself while two of the couple’s three children were locked in a room in their Rishon Letzion apartment. The couple, Lawaka Amara, 37, and his wife, Yeshi Amara, … read more »

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Restive Ethiopians Take to Street of Isreal

January 22, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

New Generation Emboldened To Protest Racism in Israel Nathan Jeffay Covering the shabby concrete storefronts in this small Israeli town are graffiti messages expressing the anger some Ethiopians feel over what they see as racism. An unemployed Ethiopian immigrant waiting … read more »

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Israel Takes in Ethiopians, Ends Their Humanitarian Plight

January 18, 2011 by benim

Groups of hundreds of Falash Mura, Ethiopians with Jewish ancestry, began arriving at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport today. Israel’s cabinet approved the immigration of 8,000 Falash Mura into Israel in 2010. Under Israel’s Right of Return law, Jews from anywhere … read more »

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Government to approve airlift of 8,000 Ethiopian Falashmura

November 14, 2010 by benim

The cabinet is expected to approve plans today to bring another 7,846 members of the Ethiopian Falashmura community to Israel over the next four years. Activists who support the rights of the Falashmura to immigrate to Israel have promised to … read more »

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