Dr. Avraham Yitzchak is a member of Israel’s Ethiopian community and a real example for many as breaking several significant records. He became the first Ethiopian immigrant to attend medical school, to become a physician, and serve in the IDF as a doctor. Yitzchak has now been appointed Chief Medical Officer of the Southern Command and has been promoted to the rank of colonel.

Yitzchak arrived in Israel at the age of 15 from Addis Abba. He attended Ben-Gurion Medical School and graduated in 1999. He was class valedictorian and later moved to the military where he has been working his way up the command ladder.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)