Ade­no (Dan­ny) Abebe is an Ethiopi­an Jew­ish jour­nal­ist and author. His new book, The Jour­ney Is Not Over Yet, tells the sto­ry of his child­hood in Ethiopia and his expe­ri­ences par­tak­ing in the first mass emi­gra­tion from Ethiopia to Israel in 1984. Ade­no, his fam­i­ly, and their neigh­bors walked 800 kilo­me­ters to Sudan accom­pa­nied by smug­glers and Mossad agents and spent a year in camps before a plane final­ly took them to Israel. Trag­i­cal­ly, a third of those who made the treach­er­ous jour­ney died of dis­ease and fatigue along the way. Com­ing from extreme pover­ty, upon their arrival in Israel, the Ethiopi­an Jews, known as Falashas, expe­ri­enced severe cul­ture shock. Anoth­er defin­ing hard­ship the Ethiopi­an Jews encoun­tered (and still endure) after their arrival in Israel was the lack of under­stand­ing and equal­i­ty as black Jews in Israel. Today, Ade­no uses his plat­forms to speak and find inno­v­a­tive ways to edu­cate his neigh­bors about his peo­ple. As a jour­nal­ist, Ade­no Abebe uses his news­pa­per columns to touch on issues in Israeli soci­ety deal­ing with race, immi­gra­tion, and pol­i­tics. His work has been not­ed by some of Israel’s top intel­lec­tu­als and politi­cians includ­ing Pres­i­dent Reuven Rivlin. Ade­no is based in Jerusalem with his wife and four children.