Dr. Maor Farid, founder and director of the "Learning to Succeed" organization, and Ruti-Anatoohun Turetsky, who is a member of the Israeli Society for the Heritage of Ethiopian Jewry, received the "Spirit of Zion" award at the Moskowitz Prize ceremony for the 2019 academic year. The Spirit of Zion Prize seeks to find and encourage new ideas designed to deal with the challenges of Zionism in Israel today. צילום: דוברות Dr. Maor FaridDr. Farid and Turetsky join the previous winners of the Spirit of Zion Prize, Yehudit Katzover and Nadia Matar, the head of the Women in Green Movement, Prof. Moshe Kopel, founder and chairman of the Kohelet Forum, and Dr. Aliza Bloch, mayor of Beit Shemesh. The event will include a full performance by Avraham Fried, who will play alongside Amir Dadon for the first time. Ruti published a comic book that connects the children in colorful and accessible language to the Jewish-experiential world of Ethiopian Jews.

Source: Ethiopian News May 09, 2019 19:26 UTC