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Does this mean that Israel Jews have ethiopian blood?
Ethiopian blood only comes from Ethiopians.
What do Jews have to go to Jews registration?
Jews who decide to live in Israel have officials take information about them, and there were lost tribes of Ethiopian Jews who needed to undergo special conversions to be recognized as Jews.
Does Ethiopia have Africa's largest Jewish population?
yes because queen Sheba who is Ethiopian married king Solomon and now Lot's of Ethiopian Jews live in Israel
What percent of all Jews live in Israel?
41% of all Jews live in israel
Where do some Jews live?
Some Jews live in Israel.
Are Jews and Israel the same?
There are Jews all over the world. The one who live in Israel are Israeli Jews, like those in the U.S called American Jews.
What is the Jewish home?
The Jewish home is considered to be Israel. All Jews are welcome there, and some Jews think that all Jews should live in Israel.
Where do 2 3 of the world's Jews live?
Approximately 2/3 of the world's Jews live in Israel.
Where do Jews live in Israel?
The answer depends on how the question is read:Reading 1: At what time did only Jews and no other people live in Israel?Never. Jewish people have lived in Israel for thousands of years, but there has never been a time when ONLY Jewish people lived within it's borders.Reading 2: At what time did all Jews live exclusively in Israel?The Jewish People lived exclusively in Israel from their early development as a nation (in what is now Israel and the West Bank) up to 586 BCE when the Babylonians conquered the Kingdom of Judah and exiled the Jewish aristocracy to Babylon (and therefore made part of the Jewish community live outside of Israel). Never again did the Jews exclusively live in 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.
Who are the ethiopian Jews?
A study by Professors Lucotte and Smets has shown that the genetic father of Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) was close to the Ethiopian non-Jewish populations. This is consistent with the theory that Beta Israel are descendants of ancient inhabitants of Ethiopia, not the Middle East. Hammer et al. in 2000, and the team of Shen in 2004, arrive at similar conclusions, namely that the DNA of the Ethiopian Jews probably indicates a conversion of local populations. A 2012 study showed that while primarily related to the local populations, Ethiopian Jews have very distant genetic links to other Jews, and are likely descended from a few Jewish founders. It has been concluded that the community began when a few itinerant Jews who settled in Ethiopia in ancient times, converted locals to Judaism, and married into the local populations. It has been estimated that this happened some 2,000 years ago.
What is it called when Jews are encouraged to live in Israel?
This is called Zionism.
