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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Israeli police locked arms to push back hundreds of ethnic Ethiopian anti-racism protesters on Wednesday in Tel Aviv where many tried to block a major traffic artery. Police said two protesters of some 400 protesters at the scene were detained. Television photographers saw five demonstrators led away. There were no reported injuries in the confrontation
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Absorption Ministry puts kibosh on Interior Ministry’s permit to allow infantrymen to bring relatives to Israel By GEDALYAH REBACK Sergeant Chalacho Mekunan receives a citation for service during Operation Protective Edge from southern commander Sami Turgeman this past February (IDF Spokesperson’s office) Two Israeli soldiers born in Ethiopia are accusing the state of dragging its
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Video surfaces showing racially charged argument in the classroom; lecturer says ‘Ethiopians are taking over the country’ College Peer Tafnit Holon suspended a lecturer Tuesday after a video surfaced of the teacher arguing with Ethiopian students, telling them, “You forget where you came from. Go back to Ethiopia.” The argument began Monday during a class
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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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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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By ORI J. LENKINSKI, The Jerusalem Post Dege Feder. (photo credit:YA’ACOV SADAN) For Dege Feder, the Amharic alphabet is more than a means of transferring thoughts into writing; it is a portal into a specific period in her past. “When I was about six years old,” explains Feder, “I studied in a school in Ethiopia
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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 Jewish Week Wearing a white coat, name badge and stethoscope, Dr. Rachel Nega strides through the halls of New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital. To patients and visitors, she looks like any other doctor on duty — slightly preoccupied, with a deliberate air to her step. Yet her dark skin and almond eyes hint at
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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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