APA
November 2, 2008
Cairo (Egypt) Egyptian authorities have announced that they have invited Arab countries bordering the Red Sea as well as Eritrea, to take part in meeting billed for November in Cairo on ways of ending the threat posed by pirates in the Gulf of Eden off the coast of Somalia.
Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmed Abul [...]
Category Archives: Israel
Egypt invites neighbours excluding Israel to discuss piracy threats
November 3, 2008 – 9:34 am
Promised Land so near yet so far for Ethiopia’s Jews
October 28, 2008 – 9:29 am
AFP/Kuwait Times, France
October 28, 2008
GONDER: In a makeshift synagogue painted in the colors of Israel’s national flag, thousands of Ethiopian Jews listen as a sermon is relayed live by mobile phone speaker from the Israeli city of Haifa. “You are all sons and daughters of Israel. God will give you what you deserve,” says rabbi [...]
Unholy row threatens Holy Sepulchre
October 20, 2008 – 10:54 am
BBC
October 19, 2008
Wyre Davies
Video: Inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:
The stone huts of Deir al Sultan monastery are at the heart of the row
An unholy row is threatening one of the most sacred places in Christianity - the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
The centuries-old site, where many [...]
Ethiopian Jews act out their journey to Israel
September 19, 2008 – 7:34 am
Christian Science Monitor
‘Roots Theater’ gives voice to the women of the epic flight.
September 18, 2008
Danna Harman
Beit Shean, Israel
She spent the first few days weaving in and out of the crowd, ducking here, hiding there. By the time her parents, back home in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, realized their 12-year-old-daughter had joined [...]
School opens in Ethiopia to prepare Falash Mura children for aliya
September 18, 2008 – 4:56 pm
Jerusalem Post
Sep 18, 2008
Ruth Eglash
Days after the Israeli government did an about-face and agreed to continue evaluating Ethiopia’s Falash Mura population for eligibility to make aliya, a new school opened in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar to help prepare thousands of Falash Mura children for a future life in the Jewish homeland.
The school, [...]
Ethiopian community fights for aliyah
September 16, 2008 – 1:52 pm
Ynet News, Israel
Yael Branovsky
09.14.08
Israeli Ethiopian representatives claim government decision to allow a thousand more Falashmura to come to Israel insufficient, as State is still ‘turning its back on 7,000 Jews, tearing families apart’
The government’s decision to approve the aliyah of a thousand more Falashmura from Ethiopia on Sunday did not do much to quell the [...]
Gov’t reverses decision, agrees to continue Falash Mura aliya
September 15, 2008 – 7:04 pm
Jerusalem Post, Israel
Sep. 14, 2008
Ruth Eglash
Interior Ministry representatives will continue checking the eligibility for aliya of some 3,000 Ethiopian Falash Mura, who claim that under a 2003 government directive they should be allowed to immigrate to Israel, the government announced Sunday.
The decision to continue the flow of immigration from the African nation follows [...]
Ethiopian Jews Rally, Urge Israel To Allow 8,700 More To Migrate From Ethiopia
August 19, 2008 – 8:48 am
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011977026
AHN, US-based new bureau
August 18, 2008
Linda Young
Jerusalem, Israel - About 1,000 people rallied outside the Israeli Prime Minister’s office on Sunday calling for the government to allow 8,700 Ethiopian Jews into the country.
Long-lost Ethiopian cousins descended from Jews forced to convert to Christianity centuries ago are getting a cooler reception by Israeli Jews [...]
Last Ethiopian immigrants to Israel arrive
August 6, 2008 – 7:20 am
AP
August 5, 2008
JERUSALEM: A group of Ethiopian immigrants arrived in Israel on Tuesday in what the government said marked an end to a 30-year immigration project — though there might still be some exceptions.
Israel’s Jewish Agency, the quasi-governmental body responsible for the immigration of Jews to Israel, said the early morning flight from Addis Ababa [...]
Ethiopian Jews in the legal profession
August 6, 2008 – 7:10 am
Ha’aretz, Israel
August 5, 2008
Legal barriers
Ruth Sinai
Esther Aliyo’s father was a well-to-do farmer in Ethiopia. In Israel, he worked as street cleaner. Revital Zana’s father also worked as a street cleaner. Unlike Aliyo’s father, he does not know how to read and write. The parents of Tigist Beilin and Zanba Derabau are also illiterate. [...]
