A Life-Changing Journey: Roots Mission 2013

“Our youth are faced with a not so simple dilemma as to their identity,” the Director of the Ethiopian Initiative Noah Mantesnot, told Israeli magazine Moshavot. “On the one hand they are Israelis, but there is dissonance because from its viewpoint, Israeli society sees them as Ethiopians. They are in a state of identity crisis and are trying to define themselves. We are telling them not to forget their roots, their mothers’ and fathers’ teachings but also not to forget that they are Israeli.”