"What does it matter that we're black?"
    25 August, 2009 (Or Kashti) -
    "What does it matter that we're
    black?" asked Beza Waldahi, who
    is trying to enroll his son at the
    school. Waldahi's family
    immigrated to Israel three years
    ago, and last month moved to
    Mevasseret Zion.

"The kids always ask what will happen, and why they don't have a
school. I don't know what to tell them. In a few years they'll go to the
army," he said. "We're like everyone else in Israel - this is our school,
our city, our country." More
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Dangerous religious radicalization
    9 July, 200 | By Haaretz Editorial -  " This is
    another stage in the takeover of the Israeli
    religious establishment by its extremist ultra-
    Orthodox wing. Under Jewish law, annulling a
    conversion is an extremely harsh move. Yet in
    recent months, these reexaminations have led to
    the revocation of dozens of conversions, all of
    women, many of whom had married and had
    children after converting. Now their children, too,
    are no longer registered as Jews, and their
    citizenship may even be revoked - not to mention
the difficulties they will have getting married in the future...." More
Ethiopian children hold sign reading:
"There is no hope for Ethiopians in Petah Tikva."
Photo: Benny Voodoo
Promised Land so near yet so far for
Ethiopia's Jews
Oct.28, 2008 | Kuwait Times
" Israel brought home 35,000 Ethiopian Jews under
Operation Moses in 1984 and Operation Solomon in
1991. Today the total number of people relocated
stands at 100,000. Two years ago, Israel promised
that a final group would be relocated before the end
of 2007. That deadline expired, leaving many in
areas like Gonder and also around the Israeli
embassy complex in Addis Ababa. The Falashmura
say previous relocations split families, leaving one
half living in Ethiopia and the other in the fabled
Promised Land." More
A Historical Guide On How To Know
    9 July, 2009  (DAILY KOS) - ".... That they have
    to be more humane. I wish that were true. The
    countervailing theory, that they are simply
    perpetuating a cycle of violence, I think may have
    a germ of truth, but it's a racial judgment that
    probably only applies to European Jews and their
    descendants. I am not sure about this; I don't
    know if Ethiopian Jews feel that in their guts the
same way Polish Jews do, but I doubt it.   ...More
Petah Tikva schools to go on strike over racism
24 August, 2009 (Y Net) - Representatives of the Parent-Teacher
Association in Petah Tikva have announced in a special press
conference that they would not open the school year due to inequality
in absorbing immigrant children in the city's schools.  More
Education Ministry pressures Petah Tikva schools
to receive Ethiopians
24 August, 2009 ( Y Net)- The Education Ministry sent letters to
Petah Tikva school directors who refused to take in Ethiopian students
containing lists of the students they are required to absorb.

According to the letters, should they fail to comply the ministry will
take action against them such as taking away the schools' license and
freezing their budgets. (Yaheli Moran Zelikovich) ." More