“The Jewish Agency’s Sparks of Science program really influenced me in a positive way. Not only did I meet a lot of friends there, but it pushed me to learn in a diff erent way and to think outside the box.”

At the age of three when Shaun Wovnach made aliyah from Ethiopia, he could have never imagined the bright future that awaited him in Israel. The youngest of six brothers and sisters, Shaun and his family were welcomed at the Jewish Agency’s Beit Canada Absorption Center in Ashkelon, where they lived for five years before settling in Rehovot. “It was easy for me to adjust because I was so young,” says Shaun, 19. “I always felt like an Israeli even though we spoke Amharic at home.”  More