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Out of Ethiopia, Educated in Israel, and Back to Africa to Assist Rwanda Orphans
[Tadias] Howard M. Lenhoff and Nathan Shapiro - Today Ethiopian Jews who were rescued from Africa during Operation Moses in 1984 and subsequently educated in Israel, are returning to Africa to help educate orphans who survived the genocide in Rwanda. The Agahozo Shalom Youth Village, being constructed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Rwamagana, Rwanda, is modeled after the Youth Aliyah Village of Yemin Orde, which was started to assist orphans from the Holocaust, and which played a major role in assisting the Ethiopian orphans. Nearly a dozen Ethiopian Israeli volunteers will be participating in the training of the Rwandans as resident teachers and staff.