Baruch Tegegne

Baruch Tegegne (23 January 1944 – 27 December 2010)[1] was a prominent leader of Ethiopian Jews in Israel and advocate of their immigration in the 1980s and 1990s.

In the 1960s, through the outbreak of the Ethiopian Civil war in 1974, when the Derg came to power and after the death of Emperor Haile Selassie, he was engaged in various business and agronomist activities, including setting up a communal farm for Ethiopian Jews on the border with Sudan.

[3] Tegegne led a protest march in 1977 in Jerusalem that gained him recognition from Menachem Begin.

He served in the Israel Defense Forces and worked with the Mossad in the late 1970s.

Beginning in 1980, Tegegne was involved in efforts to bring Ethiopian Jews to Germany and then to Canada.