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The history of the Jews in Ethiopia dates back millennia. The largest Jewish group in Ethiopia is the Beta Israel.Offshoots of the Beta Israel include the Beta Abraham and the Falash Mura, Ethiopian Jews who were converted to Christianity, some of whom have reverted to Judaism.
The Beta Israel of Ethiopia were the only modern Jewish group with a monastic tradition where the monks, titled as Abba, lived separated from the Jewish villages in monasteries, however, only partial groups lived as Beta Israel and wasn't practiced by the entire community, moreover it was a respected title used to honour elders. This collective ...
On 2 February 2022, the Israeli Supreme Court suspended Aliyah from Ethiopia. [20] On 1 June 2022, 180 Jews from Ethiopia made Aliyah to Israel as part of Operation Zur Israel to reunite 3,000 Jews in Ethiopia with their brethren in Israel. [21] On July 5, 2022, 150 Jews from Ethiopia made Aliyah to Israel as part of Operation Zur Israel. [22]
By the end of 2008, there were 119,300 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, including nearly 81,000 born in Ethiopia and about 38,500 (about 32% of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel) born in Israel with at least one parent born in Ethiopia or Eritrea (formerly a part of Ethiopia). [14]
According to Steve Kaplan, neither Eldad nor Benjamin of Tudela-who hypothesized the existence of a Jewish polity there, [2] - seem to have had any direct first-hand knowledge of Ethiopia. [11] By the 16th century, David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra accepted the Jewishness of the Beta Israel but knew they were wholly unfamiliar with the Talmud. [13]
With this endorsement, in later decades, tens of thousands of Beta Israel Jews were air-lifted to Israel. Significant immigration to Israel continues into the 21st century, producing an Ethiopian Jewish community of around 81,000 immigrants, who with their 39,000 children who were born in Israel itself, numbered around 120,000 by early 2009.
The Ethiopian Jewish community—known as Beta Israel—has ties to the Zionist project dating back to the 1860s. The group was formally recognized by a number of prominent rabbis in 1973 as ...
Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) have a tradition of descent from the lost tribe of Dan. Their tradition states that the tribe of Dan attempted to avoid the civil war in the Kingdom of Israel between Rehoboam, son of Solomon and Jeroboam, son of Nebat, by resettling in Egypt. From there they moved southwards up the Nile into Ethiopia, and the Beta ...