Dr. Avraham Negussie, (Hebrew: אברהם נגוסה, b. 1958), one of Israel's most prominent Beta Israel activists. Negussie has been engaged in promoting Jewish immigration from Ethiopia and improving the integration of the Beta Israel immigrants in Israel since the early 1990s.
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Negussie completed his M.A. degree in social work at the Hebrew University. Negussie also completed his MA degree in entrepreneurship and business administration at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in the field of education from the University of Sussex in England.
Negussie immigrated to Israel in 1985 from the city of Gondar in Ethiopia.
Negussie serves as the Chairman of Ethiopian immigrants organizations in Israel. Negussie Formerly served as a CEO of the "South Wing to Zion" association ("מכנף דרום לציון") which aims to promote Jewish immigration from Ethiopia and improve the integration of the Beta Israel immigrants in Israel.
Negussie is one of the founders and managers of the "national project" ("הפרויקט הלאומי"), a joint project of the Israeli government, the Jewish Agency and Jewish communities in the United States which aims to improve the integration of the Beta Israel immigrants in Israel.
Negussie worked for many years in the welfare department of the Jerusalem municipality.
Through the years Negussie has initiated and organized demonstrations for the Beta Israel community in various issues during different occasions.
Negussie is the founder and an activist of the public committee for the remaining Jews in Ethiopia (הוועד הציבורי למען שארית יהודי אתיופיה).
Over the years Negussie has been active in the integration of the Beta Israel students in the state-religious schools, and especially in the absorption of thousands of Ethiopian immigrant children in the High school yeshiva schools (ישיבות תיכוניות) and the High school yeshiva schools for girls (אולפנות).
Negussie was a party chairman of the Atid Ehad political party which was established before the 2006 Israeli legislative election. The party raised the banner of the issue of education at the top followed by the Immigration and Absorption. The party won 14,000 votes.
In the 2009 Israeli legislative election Negussie was placed in the eighth place's of the right-wing national religious Zionist political party The Jewish Home, although the party ended up wining only three seats.
Negussie is married, a father of two and currently lives in the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood in Jerusalem.