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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 Europe with the group as a soloist. Upon leaving school he served in one of the army’s musical band...

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, dehydration and brutal attacks by militia groups saw to it that 4,000 died in the desert and also in th...

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 the Blue and White alliance made the decision after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that ...

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