Ethiopian protest

A second chance for Ethiopian Israelis - opinion

We observed how the police unfairly handles Ethiopian Israeli demonstrators with crushing brutality, as though they were enemies of the state.

 LIKUD MK Tsega Melaku (center) advances a bill in the Knesset Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, last week, to expunge police records of Ethiopian Israelis arrested while protesting the police killing of Solomon Tekah in 2019. National Unity MK Pnina Tamano-Shata (right),  former minister
 Members of the Ethiopian community and activists block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv during a protest for justice to 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was run over and killed in a car accident in Netanya, in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2023

Adana family to meet with district attorney amid hit-and-run protest

 Protesters block the Ayalon highway in protest against the treatment of the hit-and-run case in which Rafael Adana, 4, was killed. August 23, 2023

Police officer stabbed during Tel Aviv protest against hit-and-run case

 Members of the Jewish Ethiopian community and overs block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest demand justice for to 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was run over and killed in a car accident in Netanya, August 21, 2023.

Protesters block Ayalon road after the death of an Ethiopian child


Government to publish blueprint for war on racism

"There is no justification for manifestations of racism just because someone was born to another community.”

Ethiopian immigrants protest in the Israeli capital against the looming evacuation of their absorption center in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevasseret Zion, July 10, 2017.

Panel: Integration of Ethiopians progressing well

The prime minister's office counted various successes in the absorption program.

An Ethiopian woman holds a sign that says "Mom, I want to go to kindergarten."

Is the government fighting racism against Ethiopian-Israelis?

Anti-Racism measures have yet to be implemented.

ETHIOPIAN-ISRAELIS block a road as they protest against what they say is police racism and brutality, near the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon on May 7, 2015.

Is Israel on the right path when it comes to battling racism?

Two years ago, protests by Israelis of Ethiopian descent swept the country. The government’s response has been robust, but has anything really changed?

Jerusalem protest against discriminatory policies and racism, in April last year

Ethiopian immigrants protest evacuation from absorption center

Protesters call for permanent housing solutions, saying they can’t make ends meet.

Ethiopian immigrants protest in the Israeli capital against the looming evacuation of their absorption center in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevasseret Zion, July 10, 2017.

Ethiopian-Israelis protest Police Commissioner’s comments

Mothers on Guard, a coalition of Ethiopian-Israeli mothers who oppose police brutality say they will continue until Alsheich turns in his badge.

Ethiopian - Israeli protest against racism, police brutality in Tel Aviv.

'No Ethiopians wanted' employment ad causes uproar

Throughout Israeli government there was widespread condemnation of the ad.

Ethiopian - Israeli protest against racism, police brutality in Tel Aviv.

Damas Pakada’s revenge

If we are not there to determine how this country looks in the future, someone else will be.

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv gather to protest racism and police brutality, May 18, 2015

Government pledges to fight racism against Ethiopians

The prime minister said that he and the ministerial committee had heard “heart wrenching and hair-raising stories” of racism and discrimination against Ethiopian-Israelis.

Israelis of Ethiopian origin demonstrated against police racism and brutality, May 3, after a video showing a policeman beating a soldier from the community went viral

An insult to the Ethiopian Israeli community

There are ongoing issues surrounding the status of Ethiopian Israeli religious leaders, such as the question of affording the Kessim more recognition and government support.

Ethiopian immigrants greet family members in 2010