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Student Activities
SOSTEJE places great emphasis on student progress
and encourages scholarship among students.
Doctoral Support for Students of Ethiopian Origin in
Israel
SOSTEJE is proud to have initiated and facilitated a
move by which the Ministry of Absorption will fund
large scholarships for doctoral students studying at
Israel’s institutes of higher learning to the tune
of $16,000 p.a., which can be renewed for three
years. The Center for Absorption in Science at the
Ministry of Absorption will grant large scholarships
for Israeli students of Ethiopian origin, who wish
to research their own community. These grants will
be given to Ethiopian students who have an M.A.
degree and are either continuing to a PhD. or are
involved in research under the supervision of a
researcher/lecturer at a recognized university or
college. One such grant has already been approved at
the Weizman Institute, and others are in the process
of approval. For further information, see the
attached file –
Ministry of Absorption support.
Student Representative
Simha Getahon, a student representative working for
a doctorate at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, was
appointed a member of the international committee.
Under the auspices of SOSTEJE, she chaired an
Israeli committee, which organized the First Student
Conference on Ethiopian Jewry, which took place at
Bar-Ilan University in July 2005 and
co-sponsored by the Open University, the Association
for the Advancement of Education (the Steering
Committee for Ethiopian Immigrants in the
Educational System) and the NCJW Research Institute
for Innovation in Education at the Hebrew
University.
See:
Invitation (in Hebrew). The conference was
opened by the Ambassador of Ethiopia in Israel, Mr.
Negash Kebret. One plenary session dealt with an
example of doctoral student scholarship and another
was given on qualitative and quantitative
methodologies; six students reported on their
works.It was attended by 300 people, mainly students
of Ethiopian origin.
Members of the student committee were: Anita
Nudelman, Malka Shabtay, Shlomo Akale, Bat-Zion
Eraqi Klorman, Yarden Fanta, Gadi Ben-Ezer.
See: Report (in
Hebrew) of the First Student Conference.
Student Stipends
SOSTEJE has provided stipends for selected students
of Ethiopian origin to attend its international
conferences and report on their work. At Addis Abeba
University in October 2004, 10 students of Ethiopian
origin presented papers and received travel and
limited accommodation grants.
At the Florence conference in October 2007,
SOSTEJE provided stipends for six students, Nurit
Barkan, Ravit Cohen,Belaynesh Mekonen, Sharon Shalom,
Shula Mola and Shimcah Getaun, to present papers at
the conference.
Ethiopian Jewish Ph.d.
We are pleased to announce that Yarden
Fanta-Vangenstein has completed her doctoral
dissertation in education at Tel-Aviv University
(see list of publications). Yarden has served as a
member of SOSTEJE's Israel audits committee, and
attended the SOSTEJE Addis Abeba conference. She may
be the first Ethiopian Jewish woman in Israel who
has became a Dr. in Education, or the first female
graduate altogether.
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