“On his journey to make aliyah from Ethiopia, my grandfather spent nearly nine months in the Sudan. There was only a small amount of food to go around, but he always gave his food to the children. He talked about Zion and Jerusalem and gave hope to the other people around him. On the day before he was to make aliyah, my grandfather died from illness. I am carrying on his dream in Israel.”

Born in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa, Elisheva Solomon, 26, made aliyah in 1991. Fulfilling the dream of her late grandfather,she arrived in Israel at age nine with her mother and two of her brothers. They were welcomed at the Jewish Agency’s absorption center in the northern city of Acre where they stayed for more than two years before moving to Netanya. More