Members of the Ethiopian community of Israel face policemen during clashes in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya on July 2, 2019. Most of Israel's Ethiopian community arrived in two larges waves of migration in the 1980s and 1990s, following Israel's recognition of Ethiopia's Jewish community in 1975. Today, Israel's Ethiopian community numbers approximately 140,000, according to the Population and Census Bureau, which is about 1.5% of the population. The Ethiopian community has a higher poverty rate, lower employment rate, and lower average income than the general population of Israel. Israel's Ethiopian community says it wants to see sentiments like those become their daily reality.

Source: Ethiopian News July 04, 2019 04:07 UTC