Some 2,500 Ethiopian children awaiting their immigration to the Jewish state studied in the school. The Jewish Agency donated all the school buildings and equipment to the municipality of Gondar.

When Markman returned from the mission, he was left with a desire to do more for the 12,000 Ethiopian Jews waiting to make aliyah to Israel and who continue to endure hunger, poverty and disease.

History will judge those who gave fat incentives to well-off immigrants while leaving thousands of at-risk Jews in Gondar and ...

Ethiopian Jews are in dire need of international aid as enduring issues of insufficient medical resources and food scarcity continue to plague their enclaves in Gondar and Addis Ababa.

Following the closure of the main Jewish aid compound in Ethiopia, officials from other Jewish organizations involved in Ethiopian immigration said they would work to avert a humanitarian crisis ...

Members of the Falash Mura community celebrate with a festive prayer service the immigration to Israel of 180 people from Gondar, Ethiopia, on May 31. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz ...

At present, about 10,000 Jews are living in Gondar, and an additional 2,000 are in the capital, Addis Ababa.

They originally settled in the Northern part of Ethiopia, particularly in the Simien mountains, and around Lake Tana, but when the capital moved to Gondar in 1636, new employment opportunities ...

They are in grave danger,” he said. Many Jews sold whatever they had and moved to Gondar, in northern Ethiopia, hoping to get to Israel. Hartstein compared this to “going to an airport and waiting for ...

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Kefale Tayachew Damtie, a father of six from Gondar, Ethiopia’s sixth-largest city, will be on the Wednesday flight. (Another flight with 120 Falash Mura is scheduled to fly out later this week.) ...

GONDAR, Ethiopia (Reuters) - The dusty compound where Ethiopian Jews await word on whether they can emigrate to Israel could not be more different from the world I left behind when I took the same ...