This Is Why Israeli Fashion Is So Political
by The Daily Eye Team June 19 2017, 3:51 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 56 secsAs civil war gripped Ethiopia, an entire community of Ethiopian Jews was airlifted out of the country by the Israeli government in an audacious 1984 covert operation to rescue and resettle the ancient Jewish people in Israel. Five-year-old Hirut Yosef was among them. Her village in Ethiopia, she said, was “very religious, they were dreaming of coming to Israel for thousands of years and didn’t even realize that there were other Jewish people until the 1950s, and that was when we first realized there were white Jews.” Growing up as an African Jew in Israel, Yosef wanted to belong but felt she never quite fit in. “Being Israeli for me is a big question because it’s a lot of things all together and I’ve been asking myself this question for years…for years I’ve been asking myself what makes me Israeli, what will make me belong,” she said “especially as a young girl nobody explained how, and I was trying so hard to be like the people around me.”