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The sub-Saharan African Diaspora black Jews in Israel is made up of four main groups:

1) Ethiopian immigrants, most of whom are from the Ethiopian Jewish community, the Beta Israel, but also a significant number of descendants of Christian Ethiopians with Jewish ancestry, called the Falas Mura;


2) African migrant workers and refugees;

3) Black Bedouin;



4) African-American “Black Hebrews,” who call themselves the African Hebrew Israelites.

Each group is made up of a different ethnic, religious, and social group, and they don’t talk to each other much. These groups, which are mostly black in a mostly white but multi-ethnic country, show how complicated and multi-faceted Israeli society is.

Ethiopian immigrants from the first and second generation of Black Jews in Isreal
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The 125,000 Ethiopian immigrants from the first and second generation make up the largest group of people from sub-Saharan Africa in Israel.

Since the 1980s, 80,000 Ethiopian immigrants have come to Israel in several waves, including two huge airlifts.


Between November 1984 and January 1985, 6,700 immigrants were brought from refugee camps in Sudan, where they had gathered after sneaking across the Ethiopian-Sudanese border on foot.

In May 1990, nearly 14,000 immigrants were brought from Addis Ababa within 36 hours.



Most of the people who moved to Israel before 1991 were from the Jewish Beta Israel community, which in Ethiopia was called Falasha in a derogatory way.

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