Sibo Kanobana wrote [1]in the blog Afro-Europe: “I visited Israel en Palestine during the Christmas holidays and saw many things I didn’t expect to see. One of these things is the striking presence of black people in urban Israel. They represent a diverse people of whom most are Ethiopian Jews who made aliya [2](i.e. the migration of the jewish diaspora back to Israel) and settled in Israel in the 80’s and early 90’s.”
Israel, Ethiopia: Ethiopian Jews and Other Black Immigrants in Israel
· Written by Abdoulaye Bah
Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, Israel, Citizen Media, Ethnicity & Race, Migration & Immigration