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


Ethiopians march in Jerusalem over aliya stoppage

Around fifteen hundred citizens of Ethiopian origin protested during this week’s cabinet meeting, decrying “racism” and “discrimination between Jews and Jews,” according to Hebrew media.

Israelis of Ethiopian descent take part in a protest in Jerusalem calling on gov't to bring the remaining members of their community living in Ethiopia, known as Falash Mura to settle in Israel, March 20, 2016.

Justice Ministry closes probe against cops in case that inspired Ethiopian-Israeli protests

According to the ministry’s Police Investigative Department, there was not enough evidence of criminal wrongdoing against the officers.

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.

Protests against homophobia and Jewish 'terror' take place throughout Israel

Demonstrations condemned Thursday's stabbing attack at Jerusalem's gay pride parade and Friday's arson attack that resulted in the death of an 18 month-old Palestinian baby, Ali Dawabsha.

Former president Shimon Peres speaks at a peace rally in Tel Aviv

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

Likud MK calls for inquiry into police treatment of Ethiopians

MK Abraham Naguise warns the Ethiopian-Israeli community is losing faith in the establishment due to lack of response regarding police violence towards the Ethiopian community.

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

MKs: Stop treating all Ethiopian-Israelis like new immigrants

Naguise: "We have to make sure to stop the separation so that Israelis of Ethiopian descent will be integrated in Israeli society like all citizens."

Ethiopian Israelis take part in a protest in Tel Aviv on May 3 against police racism and brutality

Netanyahu: Racism is against Jewish ethos

PM opens ministerial committee to integrate Ethiopians into society.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens ministerial committee to integrate Ethiopians‏

Netanyahu: Jews gave world idea of man's dignity, no room for racism in Jewish state

Netanyahu said that the Ethiopian Jews' journey to Israel “articulates the vision of the ingathering of the exiles which is the essence of our existence, rebirth and prayers.”

Ceremony commemorating Jewish Ethiopians who perished while making aliyah to Israel‏.

Ethiopian outcry

Journalist and social activist Tsega Melaku anticipated the cauldron of young Ethiopian protest that has just bubbled over; Now, she explains why we are only at the beginning of the chaos.

Siddartha Kaul (center) with staff and students at Kfar Neradim.

Why do Ethiopian Israelis and African Americans face such high incarceration and poverty rates?

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