As Jews around the world sit at their Seder tables telling the story of enslavement to redemption, members of Geula’s community tell their own miraculous departure story from Ethiopia to deliverance.
By ALAN ROSENBAUM April 17, 2019 20:31
Children of the Ethiopian MAKOM community help build traditional Ethiopian mud huts at the Hineni farm.. (photo credit: Courtesy)
Geula Hadray’s story is reminiscent of the Jews’ exodus from Egypt.
It was the summer of 1979 and Geula, then eight-years-old, was living in northern Ethiopia with her family, who had always dreamed of moving to Israel. “One day,” she explained, “my parents, together with others from our village, decided to leave every- thing behind and move to Israel.”
