In total, 8,000 Ethiopian Jews, or Beta Israel, were brought on aliyah to Israel from Sudan in 1984 and would be followed by tens of thousands more in 1991's Operation Solomon.
ETHIOPIANS ARRIVE on aliyah at Ben-Gurion Airport earlier this year. Ethiopian aliyah constitutes a crucial moral issue for the Jewish people.(photo credit: TOMER NEUBERG/FLASH90)ByJEREMY SHARONUpdated:
