Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen, the co-director/producer of “HEROES,” a forthcoming documentary about Ethiopia’s Beta Israel community, was selected as one of the New York Jewish Week’s 36 to Watch ...
Tragedy struck Mekonen’s family right before they made aliya: His father suddenly died hours before the flight to the Jewish state took place. At age 12, he found himself studying in a boarding school ...
The film follows the personal journey of Mekonen Abebe, a young African-Israeli Jew, who against all odds became a commander in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Born and raised in an Ethiopian village ...
Chalachew Mekonen is a member of the Falash Mura, descendants of Jewish tribes in Ethiopia, many of whom have joined the Ethiopian Jewish immigration wave in recent years and become naturalized ...
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