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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BBC African asylum seekers protest in Tel Aviv Richard Galpin reports from the US embassy where many migrants have gathered Israel is unlawfully coercing almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into leaving the country at great personal risk, Human Rights Watch says. They have been denied access to fair and efficient asylum procedures and detained
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BBC African asylum seekers protest in Tel Aviv Richard Galpin reports from the US embassy where many migrants have gathered Israel is unlawfully coercing almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into leaving the country at great personal risk, Human Rights Watch says. They have been denied access to fair and efficient asylum procedures and detained
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Al-Monitor AUTHOR-Yuval Avivi TRANSLATOR(S)-Aviva Arad Passport pictures for Ethiopians, who are awaiting immigration to Israel, lie on a table in Gondar, March 8, 2007. (photo by REUTERS/Eliana Aponte) One Ethiopian folktale goes as follows: “A long time ago, Abba Gabra Hanna went to visit the village of Lalibla. Along the way, he met a jolly
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JPost.com By URI PEREDNIK Tesfa’s battle to reunite his family, which has been torn between Ethiopia and Israel for over 10 years, is far from ending. Uri Perednik poses with Ethiopian Jews in Addis Ababa. Photo: Courtesy During Operation Protective Edge, Aregawi Tesfa was not sure he would live to see the day after the war.
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Mehereta Baruch-Ron: From an Ethiopian village to Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv – Journeys
Mehereta Baruch-Ron is Deputy Mayor of the Tel Aviv municipality. Originally from Ethiopia, she embarked on a long journey to Israel via Sudan with two of her sisters when she was just 10 years old. Her parents bought her first pair of shoes for her in preparation for the trip to Israel.
She joins Rogel Alpher to share stories from her incredible transformation: From a child growing up in an African village with no electricity or running water, to a successful theatre-actress-turned-politician in Israel. Listen:
Source: http://tlv1.fm/arts-culture/journeys/20 … -journeys/