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They are patrilineal descendants of King Solomon himself, but, additionally, members of the tribe of Judah escaped to Ethiopia, where they established a community there. We know they are of the line of King David, because genetic tests have conclusively proven that not only do they descend from Hebrews, many Ethiopian Jews in fact have up to 30% semitic blood in some instances. Ethiopian Jews have a significant chunk of Hebrew, but that is because during the rise of Islam, some of the Jews in what is now Saudi Arabia, ended up in Yemen AND Ethiopia, so, the community there got a fresh infusion of Hebrew semitic blood.
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Do the ethiopians Jews serves in the israel idf?
Yes.
Does this mean that Israel Jews have ethiopian blood?
Ethiopian blood only comes from Ethiopians.
If the Bible likened Israel to the Ethiopians then who are the people who claims to be Jews now?
Likened to doesnt mean that they are. it was a comparison. the Jews of today are the descendants of the 12 tribes of israel and the converts that joined them. its more simple than CERTAIN people make it out to be.
What happened to the Ethiopians when the so called Jews were placed in Israel?
The non-Jewish Ethiopians (i.e. the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians and the Ogadeni Muslims) remained in Ethiopia and were not disturbed. The Ethiopian Jews brought to Israel became integrated into Israeli communities. Also, as concerns the "so-called" in the question, the Jews of Ethiopia are no less Jewish than the Jews of Morocco or the Jews of Poland. It just so happens that the Jews of Ethiopia are far fewer in number. (The same could be said of North Dakotans being "less American" than Texans or Floridians since there are fewer North Dakotans. Of course, this is equally false.)
Why do some people hate Jews and Israel especially as concerns the UN?
For the reasons why people hate Jews and Israel, please see the Related Question below (so that they need not be repeated here). As specifically concerns the United Nations, people that hate the Jews and Israel hate that the United Nations was responsible for granting Jews permission to declare the State of Israel.
Why did Ethiopian Jews have to go through a special conversion to be recognized as Jews in Israel?
The conversion ritual required of Ethiopians relates to doubts about their identity. The "Jewishness" of the Ethiopian Jews has been called into question, although to talk about this today in Israel would be considered very politically incorrect, since Ethiopian Jews have been accepted and integrated into Israeli society. Ultimately, the rabbis decided that they were "real" Jews, but not without controversy. For one, many if not most of the Ethiopian Jews had converted (or perhaps been forced to convert) to Christianity. Power in Ethiopia has been split between Christians and Muslims over much of the last 500 years, and many Jews had to choose sides, while retaining what are often described as "primitive" Jewish traditions. So what remains of the ritual is there ostensibly to cleanse the taint of other religions. But really, the ritual can most accurately be described as a compromise between a minority of rabbis who don't believe that Ethiopians are "real" Jews, and a majority that has accepted them. The minority - which again is espousing a sort of right-wing view, with the usual issues (and keeping in mind the issue of race, always in the background) - cites modern DNA evidence that conclusively proves that Ethiopian Jews are genetically related to Ethiopians, not Jews, and thus the unlikelihood of the traditional history that identifies Ethiopian Jews as the descendants of the lost tribe of Dan (or alternatively, the offspring of a mating between King Soloman and Queen Sheeba, undocumented in the Bible but an oft-repeated legend in the Ethiopian historical canon). Despite this controversy, the Ethiopians have status as Jews since 1973 in Israel and almost all 120,000 of them now live there, where they are well-integrated. The ceremony is a last vestige of more draconian requirements from the past (involving ritual circumcisions), and will likely fade into history as about a third of Ethiopian Jews alive today were born in Israel.
Why did Israel airlift several thousand Ethiopians to live in Israel recently?
While the exact history of Ethiopia's Jewish community is unclear, the group has certainly been practicing Jewish traditions for centuries. Rituals include the sabbath, the Jewish Torah written in Ethiopian Amharic script, and a unique holiday called "Sigd" which marks the communal memory of Jerusalem. At times, the community suffered persecution for its different religious beliefs, although relations with Christians and Muslims were mostly good. ---------- There are a group of Ethiopians who seem to practice Judaism and are considered a "lost tribe" of Jews. They were converted by Orthodox Rabbis from Israel and moved to Israel under the Right of Return Law, which saws that all Jews living around the world have a right to move to and receive citizenship in Israel.
How are judaism and Israel alike?
Israel is the homeland of the Jews. The word Israel also refers to all the Jews in the world.
Do Ethiopian Jews face a lot of prejudice in Israel by Ashkenazi or Sephardi or Mizrahi Jews?
There is certainly some prejudice towards Ethiopian Jews in Israel. It is primarily informal prejudice, such as failures to hire, landlords failing to rent out apartments to Ethiopians and similar. There are no laws that discriminate between Ethiopian-Israelis and other Israelis. Some Israelis who are asked about why they make decisions construed as prejudicial say that they made the decision they did because they mistook the Ethiopian for a Sudanese or Nigerian Non-Jew who they see as guest workers and troublemakers in Israel (which is similar to the European perception of Muslims or the US perception of Hispanics). Others say that the Ethiopian candidate was rejected as were a number of non-Ethiopian candidates and equal opportunity means that Ethiopians will not always get their way. Ethiopians typically have less education and fewer skills, which make them less attractive to employers. However, most Ethiopian Israelis do believe that they are discriminated against, even if they cannot recall a particular incident of discrimination that happened to them. There are numerous protests in Israel by Ethiopian Jews and other Israeli Liberals who sympathize with the Ethiopians' situation. Realizing that the Sudanese/Nigerian argument is the most commonly used one against them, they often say "We are not Muslims like them, but Jews, see us as equals", which is, of course, its own form of prejudice (because it implies that Muslims should not be seen as equals).
Are Ethiopians of Hebrew descent?
No. In terms of both genetics and the Jewish tradition, the Ethiopians were not descended from Hebrews. According to Ethiopian tradition, however, some of them claim that a portion of their population is constituted by one the lost Tribes of Israel. If this were true, then those Ethiopians would be of Hebrew descent.
What percent of all Jews live in Israel?
41% of all Jews live in israel
What percentage of Jews living in Israel were born there?
Out of approximately 76 percent of the Jews in Israel, roughly 67 were born in Israel.
