The Shofars Square

The story

The Shofars Square stands in Neighborhood Yod-Alef of Beersheba, at the meeting of Abarbanel, Ha-Hida and Rabbi Uziel streets, and was dedicated on 4 July 2017. It carries the name of Ferede Yazezaw Aklum (15 May 1949 – 8 January 2009), an Ethiopian-Jewish educator and a Mossad agent, the pathbreaker of the immigration from Ethiopia to Israel by way of Sudan. His activity prepared the ground for Operation Moses in 1984, in which thousands of Jews were brought up from Ethiopia. The place of the square is not accidental: it stands next to the first absorption center of the immigration of Ethiopian Jews in the city, which was built in the 1980s. Neighborhood Yod-Alef is one of the neighborhoods in which the immigrants from Ethiopia settled, and at the other end of the city, in Neighborhood Vav, stands Addis Ababa Square, named after a twin city of Beersheba. The square is one of about fifty squares of Beersheba that have a name of their own and carry a sculpture, a fountain or invested landscaping, out of more than two hundred and fifty traffic circles in the city. Some of them commemorate people, and this is one of them.

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