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In comments marking the Sigd holiday, president says some of the ‘thousands’ who are still waiting to immigrate are ‘threatened and in a worrying situation’

The Jewish News of Northern California

Ethiopian Immigrants arrive in Israel as part of Operation Tzur Israel, March 11, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata warned on Thursday that she would not support the upcoming state budget unless the Finance Ministry agrees to her demand for increased funding to bring Ethiopian immigrants to Israel. “I will never allow them to continue to abuse the Ethiopian community and abandon them at the bottom of the government’s list of priorities,�...

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Director Jonathan Gruber tells Haaretz about his new documentary ‘Upheaval: The Journey of Menachem Begin,’ which is at its strongest when it concentrates on the personal rather than the political

From the blog of Linda Pardes Friedburg at The Times of Israel

Gili Yalo: The Man Who Beat His Demons  shares Ethiopian music is hip in Israel, partly thanks to Ethiopian-born Gili Yalo, who with his family fled Ethiopia in 1984 to come home. Gili remembers that emotional day. As part of Operation Moses, an airlift that rescued 8,000 Jews from famine war-torn Ethiopia, the five-year-old arrived on his father’s shoulders, singing his heart out. Music was part of Gili from that moment on. He went on to sing in a choir for religious boys, and even toured E...

Pnina Tamano-Shata: Home Sweet Home en:Yesh Atid political party, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons With her father, five brothers and thousands of other Ethiopian Jews, three-year-old Pnina Tamano-Shata trekked on foot under the blazing sun across an African desert from Ethiopia all the way to Sudan. Operation Moses, a clandestine and daring escapade that took two months, was done in coordination with the IDF, Mossad, Sudan and the CIA. The November 1984 journey was perilous. Starvation, deh...

12 shares In this photo from the Jewish Agency, Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata (left) and Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog (center) greet 119 new immigrants from Ethiopia at Ben Gurion Airport, May 21, 2020. (Shlomi Amsalem) Immigration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata called off a planned Thursday ceremony meant to greet hundreds of new immigrants to Israel from Ethiopia over fears the prime minister and other cabinet members would use it to score political points. The member of t...

Immigration data shows 52% of newcomers in Israel over past decades were women, most of them between the ages of 18–35; lion's share of female immigrants came from Russia, Ukraine and France