Ethiopia

Ethiopia and Israel share a new year - and an opportunity to deepen their historic ties - opinion

Ethiopia enters a new year of economic growth and major development projects while seeking to strengthen its strategic partnership with Israel.

ETHIOPIA’S GRAND Renaissance Dam undergoes construction work on the Nile River in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia, on  September 26.  (Tiksa Negeri/File Photo/Reuters)
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America, beware: The battle over Israel’s identity could be coming for the US - opinion

Rescue teams searching for 9-year-old Haymanut Kasau, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, February 28, 2024.

Students encouraged to bring red balloons to first day of school for missing child Haymanot Kasau

'The old and the new’ combines traditional Ethiopian weaving with modern techniques.

Shaping memory through ceramics


Fighting discrimination: Criminal records of disorderly conduct to be erased for Ethiopian Israelis

Ethiopians have been experiencing institutional and individual discrimination for years, including from Israel Police, the Palmor committee found.  

Israelis of Ethiopian descent take part in a protest

Chief Rabbi Lau: Ethiopian Christian missionaries infiltrating Israel, end aliyah initiative

It is "time to treat applicants from Ethiopia the same as anyone who applies from anywhere else in the world," said Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel David Lau.

A person holds a crucifix outside a Catholic church in Harare, Zimbabwe March 29, 2024.

'We believe it will happen': Four months since the disappearance of Haymanot Kasau

Kasau , who two months ago turned ten years old, immigrated with her family from Ethiopia to Israel three and a half years ago and lived in the absorption center on Tzahal 9 street in Safed.

 Police and rescue forces seen during a search for 9-year-old Kasau, in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 27, 2024.

The price of a homeland: ‘Aida’ hits the Silver Screen during wartime

There are Hebrew and English subtitles, the sound quality is better, and the Silver Screen offers a rich visual experience on an unparalleled scale.

 AIDA OKSANA VOLKOVA as Amneris in ‘Aida.’

Groundbreaking study reveals way to resolve Nile water dispute

Groundbreaking energy-trades approach could help resolve conflict among Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan over dwindling Nile.

A general view of The Nile River, houses and agricultural land from the window of an airplane in Luxor, Egypt October 9, 2019

Tsion Café: Ethiopian Israeli kosher vegan food in Harlem, New York - review

This restaurant one of a kind in the New York and perhaps North American kosher scene.

 Tsion Café owner Eejhy Barhany displays traditional Ethiopian sauce she makes and sells in the eatery.

Residents say Ethiopian soldiers kill more than 50 civilians in Amhara town

The Amhara conflict broke out less than a year after the government reached a peace deal in November 2022 to end a two-year civil war in the neighboring Tigray region that killed tens of thousands.

 Members of the Ethiopian National Defense Force are seen during a pro-government rally to denounce what the organisers say is the TPLF and the Western countries' interference in internal affairs of the country, at Meskel Square in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 7, 2021.

Israel airlifted him from Ethiopia. Now he's a hi-tech entrepreneur

Solomon Geveye immigrated to Israel and became a successful hi-tech entrepreneur. Now he's trying to help other Ethiopian-Israelis break into hi-tech.

 Solomon Geveye

Israeli-Ethiopian musician spreads some light at the Hullegeb Festival

The festival, established by Confederation House and its long-serving CEO and artistic director Effie Benaya, showcases the best the Ethiopian community has to offer.

 AVI WASA will introduce the Confederation House audience to some nuggets from ‘The Great Ethiopian Songbook.’

What were the Nazis' colonial plans for Africa? - study

The new research suggests that World War II started 4 years before 1939, with Italy's takeover of Abyssinia.

A Nazi eagle statue at the Lofoten War Memorial Museum in Norway.