Some forty-five thousand Beta Israel—Ethiopian Jews—have fled…
August 1992 CE
Some forty-five thousand Beta Israel—Ethiopian Jews—have fled drought- and war-stricken Ethiopia and immigrated to Israel. (Nearly twenty-eight thousand Ethiopian Jews immigrate to Israel from 1990 to 1992, adding to the earlier migration of eleven thousand in 1984 and 1985. The ongoing absorption of the Beta Israel community into Israeli society will remain a source of controversy and ethnic tension in subsequent years.)