{"id":273607,"date":"2019-04-17T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiOmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lmpwb3N0LmNvbS9EaWFzcG9yYS9UaGUtRXRoaW9waWFuLUV4b2R1cy01ODcxODfSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:23:01","slug":"the-ethiopian-exodus-jewish-ethiopias-long-road-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273607","title":{"rendered":"The Ethiopian Exodus: Jewish Ethiopia\u2019s long road to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around Passover 2019, The Jerusalem Post revisited the long <strong>Ethiopian Jewish<\/strong> journey to Israel, framing community memory of flight, rescue operations, and absorption as its own exodus story told at Seder tables.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-219913\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Israeli-Prime-Minister-pays-tribute-to-Ethiopian-immigrants.jpg?fit=780%2C516&ssl=1\" alt=\"The Ethiopian Exodus: Jewish Ethiopia\u2019s long road to Israel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The feature followed people whose families crossed deserts and waited through airlifts and bureaucratic limbo. It treated identity, racism inside Israel, and pride in survival as living politics, not folklore sealed in museums.<\/p>\n<p>For Horn and diaspora readers, Beta Israel history is inseparable from Ethiopian state violence, famine politics, and Israeli immigration decisions across decades. The \u201cexodus\u201d label is faith language and also migration policy.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping the piece in the archive honors a community thread that news cycles often drop between conflicts. Jewish Ethiopia\u2019s road to Israel remains unfinished business in both countries\u2019 public stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Diaspora\/The-Ethiopian-Exodus-587187\">The Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian Exodus&nbsp;&nbsp;The Jerusalem PostAs Jews around the world sit at their Seder tables telling the story of enslavement to redemption, members of Geula&#8217;s community tell their own miraculous &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":219913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Israeli-Prime-Minister-pays-tribute-to-Ethiopian-immigrants.jpg?fit=1204%2C797&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19b1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600846,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273607\/revisions\/600846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}