Meretz MK Gilon calls for Netanyahu to fire his representative who threatened family of missing man; “No one should dare to tell us that this is not connected to skin color,” Gal-On says. Avera Mengistu. (photo credit:Courtesy) Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On wrote a scathing rebuke Friday of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s representative who threatened the
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Jpost.com Although the suffering of many immigrants from Ethiopia in the past 30 years is well documented, treatment for their resulting psychological trauma has been minimal. Members of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel mark the holiday of Sigd in Jerusalem November 20, 2014. (photo credit:REUTERS/AMIR COHEN) Psychotrauma certainly isn’t new to the Jewish People.
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Worku Abiy, 23, lost his parents at a young age and could never imagine he would one day serve as an officer in the IDF; ‘For me, service is an honor,’ says Abiy. By Omri Efraim Among hundreds of excited cadets at an officer training course graduation ceremony on Wednesday stood one soldier who felt
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By BEN HARTMAN Murder-suicide suspected after police find woman, husband dead in Rishon Police says evidence links IDF colonel to sex crimes … The woman, aged 44, was found inside her apartment in Arnon Street with stab wounds across her upper body. Neighbors came to the apartment after hearing screaming coming from inside. A Rishon
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HAARETZ Yonatan Heilo was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder; judge says appellant’s distressed background cannot serve as a grounds for mitigating his sentence. Dozens of people arrived at the Supreme Court on Monday to show their support for a man sentenced to 20 years in prison for murdering the man he says
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The report also stated that in 2013, 1355 new immigrants arrived from Ethiopia, nearly a 50% reduction in aliya from the previous year. Ethiopians celebrating in Jerusalem Ethiopians celebrating in Jerusalem. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) (Jpost)- At the end of 2013 the Ethiopian population in Israel stood at some 135.5 thousand people –
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Al-Monitor A supporter of the Yesh Atid Party hugs Ethiopian immigrant and party candidate Penina Tamanu-Shata (facing camera) as they celebrate exit poll results at the party’s headquarters in Tel Aviv, Jan. 22, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Ammar Awad) AUTHOR Mazal Mualem TRANSLATOR(S)Danny Wool In an interview with Al-Monitor, she said that when she was first
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HAARETZ By Roy (Chicky) Arad In the yard of Petah Tikva’s Fidel Youth Center, girls shout while playing soccer and boys grill hot dogs for a birthday party. The children, most of whose parents immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia, sing along to a Hebrew song and gossip in Hebrew. But on the center’s second floor,
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HAARETZ By Roy (Chicky) Arad In the yard of Petah Tikva’s Fidel Youth Center, girls shout while playing soccer and boys grill hot dogs for a birthday party. The children, most of whose parents immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia, sing along to a Hebrew song and gossip in Hebrew. But on the center’s second floor,
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Failed Messiah By Shmarya Rosenberg The Sefardi chief rabbi of the Israeli city of Petah Tikva has allegedly repeatedly refused to allow Ethiopian Jewish couples to marry, forcing them to leave the city and get married elsewhere, the Times of Israel reported based on a report on Army Radio. Rabbi Benjamin Atias is a member of the
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