Shimon Solomon

Shimon Solomon was born in 1968 in Ethiopia

Solomon was born in 1968 in a small village in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. In 1980 he walked to Israel with his parents and most of his siblings as part of Operation Brothers. He studied at the Yemin Orde religious youth village.

He served in the Paratroopers Brigade and became a major in the reserves. He earned a BA in social work at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1991. He later began an MA in educational policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem but left to serve abroad.

From 1992 he worked in education, first at the AMIT high school in Beersheba and then as an adviser to education ministers. He held roles at the Jewish Agency and served as an envoy in Addis Ababa from 2005. From 2008 to 2012 he directed education at the Agahozo-Shalom youth village in Rwanda.

He was one of the founders of Yesh Atid and entered the Knesset in 2013 from 12th place on its list. He worked mainly on education and on issues of Israelis of Ethiopian origin, and did not run again in 2015. He then headed the Kfar Silver agricultural school and in 2022 began serving as ambassador to Angola.