Creator Bio
Aliza Auerbach
1940–2016
Israeli photographer Aliza Auerbach published her photographs in books, including Pioneers (1990), a documentary look at the first settlers of kibbutzim and moshavim; Aliya (1996), a chronicle of the journey of Ethiopian and Russian immigrants to Israel; and Working Women (2003), pictures of women at work in more than forty countries. She has won the Nikon Photo Contest International (1996; 1998) and the UNESCO International Photo Contest (1998). Auerbach’s photographs are at the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Museum for Israeli Art.
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On the Way from Assembly Point Atzdemeriam to Transit Camp in Teda, Ethiopia
In 1991, Israel launched Operation Solomon, a covert military operation to airlift Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) to Israel. Fourteen thousand men, women, and children were transported to Israel over…