Tag: Operation Solomon
Ethiopian Israeli Sigal Kanotopsky: ‘We are all pieces of the same puzzle’
Sigal Kanotopsky—Ethiopia-born, Israel-bound and recently resettled in Philadelphia—speaks of her identity simply: “I am a Jew and an Israeli born in Ethiopia.”
But her identity was not always so concisely defined. Kanotopsky, now 46, arrived...
Two of the 14,325 stories behind ‘Operation Solomon’
Ethiopia was in the midst of a brutal civil war in 1991 when Israel decided to launch an intrepid mission that would bring 14,325 Ethiopian Jews to Israel over the course of 36 hours....
Netanyahu greets first wave of Ethiopian immigrants in ‘Operation Rock of Israel’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday greeted at Ben Gurion International Airport the first group of Ethiopian immigrants to arrive in the country within the framework of “Operation Tzur Israel” (“Rock of Israel”).
The...