Yona Bogale
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Yona Bogale （Hebrew: יונה בוגלה; 1908–1987） was an Ethiopian Jewish educator and public figure, who served as the director of the Beta Israel education network in Ethiopia and worked vigorously for the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
He led the efforts to improve the living conditions of the Beta Israel in Ethiopia by expanding education, providing medical facilities, increasing agricultural production and promoting religious freedom.
His persistence in the face of opposition enabled many thousands of his people to fulfill their lifelong dream of Aliyah, or return to the homeland of Israel.
Yona Bogale, Age 46, after returning from Israel and Europe to teach and work in Ethiopia Yona Bogale was born in 1908 in the rural village of Wolleqa, near Gondar in Northern Ethiopia,
The eldest of five children of Bogale Birru and Beletu Reda, he was raised in a family of farmers and goat and cattle herders, but showed an early aptitude for language and education.
With the help of Dr. Jacob （Jacques） Faitlovitch and Professor Tamrat Emmanuel, he completed his primary studies, and at the age of 12, and was one of several young people selected to study abroad.
After attending elementary school in Jerusalem for four years, he spent two years in high school in Frankfurt, Germany.
He attended the University of Heidelberg in Germany for two years and completed his international studies at the Asher Institute for Jewish Education in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Alliance Francaise Universelle in Paris, France.
After returning to Addis Ababa in 1932, he taught in the teacher training and boarding school opened there by Faitlovitch, eventually becoming its principa...