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- Ethiopian Jews - Felashas/Beta Israel
- Baruch Dego - Ethiopian Israeli Soccer Sensation
Addisu Messela - Ethiopian-born Labor Knesset member
- Ethiopian Jews 'Falasha or Beta Israel', although a very small segment of the Ethiopian population their airlifting/immigration to Israel starting in 1984 got world press attention and in the West. Today there are around 80,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel,
Falasha's mostly come from Gondar state in the north west of Ethiopia, "According to one tradition, the Ethiopian Jews are the descendants of one of the ten tribes, as their religion is an ancient form of biblical Judaism. Their religious practices are prescribed by the Orit, the Torah translated into their Gez dialect." more >>
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