Tags: Ethnic Group.
Ethiopian Jews in Israel refers to the immigrants and descendants of the immigrants of the Beta Israel communities of Ethiopia who now reside in Israel.Most of the community made aliyah from Ethiopia to Israel in two waves of mass immigration assisted by the Israeli government: Operation Moses (1984) and Operation Solomon (1991).Today Israel is home to the largest Beta Israel community in the world with about 121000 citizens of Ethiopian descent in 2009 who are mainly assembled in the smaller urban areas of central Israel.
