People in the News, 2nd prize
Gideon Mendel
Network Photographers
Network Photographers
01 January, 1991
An Ethiopian mother is reunited with her son, who came to Israel ahead of her in the first 1985 airlift of Falashas - Operation Moses. In 1991, immigrants from Ethiopia and the Soviet Union have been arriving in Israel in large numbers.
Gideon Mendel
Born in Johannesburg in 1959, he studied psychology and African history at the University of Cape Town. Following his studies he became a freelance photographer, photographing ch...
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