Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Conference Marks 20 Years Since Ethiopian Airlift

israelnationalnews, May 17, 2011
A two-day symposium "Ethiopia and Ethiopians, Yesterday to Today – 1991 to 2011: Regime Change and Operation Solomon" is taking place Tuesday and Wednesday at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The first day will be conducted in English and the second in Hebrew.

On Tuesday, former Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia and coordinator of Operation Solomon, Uri Lubrani will describe how the airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews came to life in 1991. Other sessions will include:

"Ethiopia: Economics and ethnicity", "Aspects of Ethiopian culture at home and abroad", "Islam in Ethiopia and Israeli-Ethiopia Relations",

"'The Zionism of Ethiopian Jewry and its influence on our sense of mission" and "Aliyah through Addis Ababa: Legal but complex".

The first day will be held in Room 502, Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Mount Scopus campus.

The second day, which will take place in the Abba Eban Conference Hall of the Truman Institute, Mount Scopus campus, will include "A comparative look at Jewish Ethiopian Aliyah",

"Health in the Israeli Ethiopian community", "Learning Amharic in Israel", "Containment and exclusion of Ethiopians in the education system" and "Media and its accessibility in the Ethiopian Community".
Source: israelnationalnews.

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