Menashe Zemro

Menashe Zemro (born 1905 or 1906; died 7 October 1998 at age 92) was the last Kes of the Ethiopian Jews.

Biography
Zemro was born in Gondar, Ethiopia around the year 1906.

Through Operation Solomon, Zemro, a kes, would migrate with most of the Beta Israel community in 1991 to Israel. After making aliyah, he would continue to serve as a spiritual leader in Israel for the Beta Israel community.

Zemro would go on to settle in Kiryat Gat, where he would later die, on 7 October 1998. Adisu Massala, a Knesset member who had migrated from Ethiopia, would describe the deceased spiritual leader as the greatest of the generation.