About Us
The Struggle for Ethiopian Aliyah is a grassroots civil organization working for the continuation of aliyah from Ethiopia and the reunification of families torn between Israel and the waiting communities in Gondar and Addis Ababa.
The campaign was founded in 2013 by Uri Perednik, Yitzhak Mola, and Yerus Yitmayen Mahrat, and grew from the ground up: volunteers who knew the Jewish communities in Ethiopia closely, together with the waiting families in Israel. Young men and women of the community, soldiers, students, and social activists who refuse to accept a reality in which siblings, parents, and children are left behind for years. In recent years the campaign has been led by Surafel Almo, continuing to work alongside the organization's volunteers to advance aliyah and family reunification.
The organization operates in the public, media, and political arenas: before the Knesset, the government, state ministries, the press, and social media. Our goal is an orderly, transparent, and immediate government solution for continued aliyah and family reunification.
The values that guide us
Family
Family reunification is the heart of the campaign, parents, children, brothers and sisters.
Justice
Honoring the promises and government resolutions made to the waiting communities.
Responsibility
The moral and Jewish responsibility of the State of Israel toward the communities.
Hope
The belief that public struggle will bring the families home.