Qes Adana Takuyo was born in Seqelt and studied with the Qessim as a child. During the time of the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, he had moved to Ambober where he worked as a farmer. He studied Hebrew briefly in 1955 when an Israeli Rabbi taught in Asmara. in 1985 Qes Adana immigrated to Israel along with his wife and eleven children, where his oldest son Rabbi Josef Adana who had immigrated earlier had become the first Ethiopian Jewish Rabbi. Wikipedia
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Children of the Beta Israel community. Wallaka, Gondar District, Ethiopia, 1984 Photo: Doron Bacher Beth Hatefutsoth Visual Documentation Center www.bh.org.il/Names/ethiopianames.asp
The Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ) is an Ethiopian-led advocacy and service organization representing Israel's Ethiopian immigrant community. Our goal is to assist in the full and rapid absorption and in www.iaej.co.il/pages/history_exile_%20in_ethiopia.htm
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