Some forty-five thousand Beta Israel—Ethiopian Jews—have fled…

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.)