Reuters August 15, 2010 * Migrants were being held for ransom * More bodies to be discovered, source says ISMAILIA, Egypt – Smugglers may have killed as many as 10 African migrants in an armed battle near the Egyptian-Israeli border last week and dozens more could be lost in the desert, Egyptian security sources said [...]
Category Archives: Israel
Landver flies to Ethiopia to resolve fate of Falash Mora
July 11, 2010 – 8:04 am
Jerusalem Post. Israel July 9, 2010 Ruth Eglash First ever visit by a minister of absorption centers on eligibility of 8,700 would-be Olim. Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver will make her maiden voyage to Ethiopia on Saturday night, where she will be the first minister of immigrant absorption to visit the East African country and [...]
Toward creating an Ethiopian Israeli Peace Corps
July 9, 2010 – 8:24 am
JTA July 7, 2010 Howard Lenhoff President of American Association for Ethiopian Jews from 1978 to 1982. (JDC) Ethiopian Israeli teacher Dror Negussi is surrounded by Rwandan orphans at the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. In Africa and Israel, several exciting programs are now operating that show that untapped resources in Israel’s Ethiopian Jewish [...]
Palestinian president begins a visit to Ethiopia
July 7, 2010 – 6:51 am
Afrique Avenir/APA July 7, 2010 Addis Ababa – The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, is expected to arrive in Addis Ababa late on Monday for a three day official visit to Ethiopia. According to the Palestinian embassy in Addis Ababa, the visit aims to consolidate the bonds of love and constructive cooperation [...]
Yishai wants to send infiltrators back to Eritrea
April 29, 2010 – 8:42 am
YnetNews.com, Israel April 27, 2010 Yael Branovsky Interior minister approaches Foreign Minister Lieberman in a bid to examine ways together with African state to return infiltrators back to homeland Interior Miniater Eli Yihsai has drawn up a plan according to which the Foreign Ministry would approach Eritrea in a bid to return some 13,000 of [...]
‘Al-Qaida terrorists may pose as Ethiopians to sneak into Israel’
April 26, 2010 – 8:31 am
Haaaretz, Israel April 26, 2010 Zvi Bar’el The Yemen-based arm of Al-Qaida is examining the possibility of infiltrating terrorists into Israel disguised as Somali refugees crossing the border from Egypt or even as new immigrants from Ethiopia. Shi’ite rebels yesterday sent another letter to Haaretz, the latest of several, in which they quote from a [...]
Israeli’s Photos Capture Ethiopian Jews Snared by Visa Red Tape
April 20, 2010 – 9:46 pm
Bloomberg April 20, 2010 Six years ago, a divorced and discontented Atalia Katz quit her job as a real-estate executive in Israel and traveled through Thailand, Vietnam, Morocco and Ethiopia, carrying her Canon and Leica cameras. “I was looking for myself,” said the 58-year-old blond, green-eyed Israeli, in an interview in New York. The search [...]
From Ethiopia to the IDF officer corps
April 20, 2010 – 9:22 pm
Haaretz¸ Israel April 19, 2010 Yair Ettinger Netzanet Fredeh is constantly required by her surroundings to bear the title “an Israeli of Ethiopian origin.” But she bears this title with pride. As commander of the Immigration and Integration Branch of the Israel Defense Forces’ Education Corps, she works to advance the lot of Ethiopian soldiers [...]
Ethiopian Jewry gets its first Haggada
March 12, 2010 – 8:26 pm
Jerusalem Post, Israel March 12, 2010 RUTH EGLASH Historic saga will be incorporated into mainstream Pessah story for first time. The historic saga of Ethiopian Jewry, with its unique traditions and customs, will be incorporated into the mainstream Pessah story for the first time in a new Haggada written by Ethiopian-Jewish history expert Rabbi Menachem [...]
Israel eyes new alliances in Africa
March 12, 2010 – 8:23 am
UPI March 9, 2010 TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel is struggling to keep its diplomatic friends in Africa as Iran makes a determined effort to expand its influence there, making the continent an emerging theater in the Iran-Israel confrontation. But these days the Jewish state has a new ally, Kenya, which wants Israeli help to [...]