Israel's Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants Study

Ethiopian Jews, also known as Beta Israel, and the Falasha, is a special Jewish community in Israel. When it comes to their Specificity, one is because of their special origin; the other is due to their unique religious belief. Although they also believed Judaism, due to the long isolation from the mainstream Jewish community, they knew nothing about Hebrew, the later Jewish classics and law, and even the content of the rabbinic Judaism.They mainly believed the content of The Old Testament and Moses five commandments. Through three times of massive secret rescue operations in1984to1990, they went back to Israel from a war-torn and hunger loss in Ethiopia through Sudan.Since the Ethiopian Jews have returned to Israel, the controversy about this special group has never been ceased in Israel. Some Zionists support for their return, while others have expressed doubt about them. They question the Jewishness of Ethiopian Jews. in addition, they think that the Israeli government’s rescue operations are mainly for political reasons. Further, these operations are taken to change the proportion of the population in Israel, ultimately improving the proportion of the Jewish immigrants Now, thirty years later, the Ethiopian Jews have not been able to successfully integrate into Israeli society, but suffering discrimination in the areas of education, housing, employment.This article mainly introduces the origin of the Ethiopian Jews, immigration process and the life after returning Israel, in order to have a clear understanding about the Ethiopian Jews’ status and their future life.