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A group of Israeli and Ethiopian citizens pose for a photo. (Israeli Embassy in Ethiopia)
August 14, 2023, 3:37 pm
Israel evacuates more than 200 Ethiopians from conflict region
Evacuees include 174 people from the city of Gondar, traditionally a gathering spot for Ethiopian Jews waiting for authorization to move to Israel.
By Ben Sales (JTA)
Beta Israel, Pic: Meketa
August 14, 2023, 9:45 am
OPINION: How long can the 6,000 Ethiopian Jews caught up in civil war survive?
Israel needs to urgently up the ante to save the lives of 6,000 Ethiopian Jews from the country's civil war, writes Sybil Sheridan from Meketa, which supports Jews in Ethiopia.
By Sybil Sheridan
Project launching for Jews in Gondar, Ethiopia, overseen by experts from World ORT and World ORT Kadima Mada in Israel. Credit: ORT
January 18, 2023, 10:54 am
ORT launches educational program for Ethiopian Jewry
Some 300 Ethiopian Jewish students aged 14 to 21 will benefit from the workshops aimed at enhancing science and technology skills
By JN Reporter
Ethiopian Jew during sigd (Wikipedia/Author: האגודה הישראלית למען יהודי אתיופיה)
February 27, 2020, 2:29 pm
Dozens of new immigrants arrive in Israel from Ethiopia
New immigrants -part of the Falash Mura community - are from nine families and are being reunited with relatives who live in Israel
By JTA
Ethiopian Jew during sigd (Wikipedia/Author: האגודה הישראלית למען יהודי אתיופיה)
January 22, 2020, 10:46 am
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate recognises Ethiopian Beta Israel as Jewish
Ruling which was issued months ago - but only reported first this week - accepts the position of the late Sephardic chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef from 1973
By JTA
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog with immigrants to Israel from the last decade, and their young children.
December 24, 2019, 1:06 pm
More than a quarter-of-a-million immigrants moved to Israel in the 2010s
Aliyah came from 150 countries with more than half originating from former Soviet lands
By JTA
ZAKA Chairman Yehuda Meshi-Zahav gives the Israel team a final briefing before they depart for Ethiopia. Credit: ZAKA
March 11, 2019, 9:31 am
Israel offers help to Ethiopia after 149 killed in air crash
Search and rescue team from the Jewish state sent to African country after disaster, as PM Netanyahu says if there's 'anything we can do we are ready to do it'
By JTA
Happy campers! Some of the Second Home volunteers in Borehamwood this summer
September 6, 2018, 12:10 pm
A Jewish helping hand for young refugees on summer camp
Rivkah Brown meets a group of teenagers from war-torn countries that came together in rural England for a week of workshops, sport, learning and fun
By Rivkah Brown
Villagers gather round their new water pumping system
April 12, 2018, 4:31 pm
Africa gains from Israel’s solar system
 A charity that brought solar energy to poverty-stricken villagers is giving thousands of people a new lease of life
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Landing in Israel after making aliyah
February 27, 2018, 5:08 pm
Russia and Ukraine provided Israel with majority of immigrants in 2017
More than 14,000 new immigrants to the Jewish state came from the two countries for the first time in more than a decade
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
Rwandan President Paul Kagame (left) greets Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
November 29, 2017, 10:45 am
Israel to open first embassy in Rwanda as part of ‘expansion in Africa’
Benjamin Netanyahu will open new outpost in the central African country more than 20-years after re-establishing relations
By JTA
April 13, 2017, 11:42 am
Thirty Under 30: The community’s top young talent
We begin our three-week countdown of individuals set to define Jewish life in Britain in the decades to come
By Noa Lessof Gendler
David Miliband in a Rakhine State community in Myanmar, where he heard how IRC has empowered them and changed their lives. (Credit: IRC/Jennifer Harrison)
November 16, 2016, 6:02 pm
David Miliband: ‘We are dealing with the symptoms of failed politics’
In an exclusive interview, the former foreign secretary discusses his three years on the front line of the global refugee crisis and refuses to rule out a return to UK politics before 2020
By Justin Cohen
October 10, 2016, 2:07 pm
World news-roundup: Chicken-waving ritual blocked by court
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Sara Netanyahu receives flowers from local schoolchildren upon arriving in Uganda ( JINI Photo Agency, LTD)
July 7, 2016, 1:40 pm
Netanyahu denies assassination attempt during Africa tour
Amid reports of a thwarted bid on his life, the Israeli PM said 'there is nothing in it'
By Jewish News Reporter
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