Employment, Empowerment, and Leadership for Ethiopian Israeli University Graduates and Students Program

Founded in 2007, Olim Beyahad: Rising Up Together was established with the aim of increasing the employment rate among Ethiopian Israeli university graduates by affording them the opportunity to gain respectable jobs at the forefront of Israel’s workforce. Olim Beyahad’s programs (including entrepreneur development, internship placement and preparatory courses) are based on the rationale that by successfully integrating participants in leading jobs, individuals will serve as role models for the entire Ethiopian Israeli community and larger Israeli society. This is done in the effort to eliminate Israeli society’s prejudices against the Ethiopian sector and bring an end to the sector’s unemployment and poverty.