The University of Tel Aviv has awarded a full professorship to Anbessa Tefra, the first Ethiopian migrant to achieve this status.
Tefra was appointed senior lecturer in music at Tel Aviv ten years ago.
His publications include a range of studies on Amharic practices.
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