Ethiopia has one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, rumoured to be the descendants of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon in 950 BC. From the 1970s to 1990s, this community known as Beta Israel was persecuted under the Communist regime, and Israel evacuated more than 20,000 Ethiopian Jews in dramatic airlifts known as Operation Solomon and Operation Moses. But a few thousand were left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ethiopia has one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, rumoured to be the descendants of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon in 950 BC. From the 1970s to 1990s, this community known as Beta Israel was persecuted under the Communist regime, and Israel evacuated more than 20,000 Ethiopian Jews in dramatic airlifts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1535],"tags":[336,523,8679,2056],"class_list":["post-131642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-israel","tag-jews","tag-visa"],"yoast_head":"\n