Ethiopian Jews have bridged huge cultural gaps to serve in the Israeli army and excel at universities. The Forgotten Origin of the Ethiopian Jews; from Northern Sudan ... A number of Jewish traditions claim the Beta Israel to be the descendents of the lost Tribe of Dan, one of the lost twelve tribes of Israel.

The story about the tribe of Dan is a legend, created to support the claim to Jewishness.

1974 — Emperor Haile Selassie, ruler of Ethiopia since 1930, is overthrown in a coup. They are said to have fought with the natives. Rabbis believed they were probably descendants of the Tribe of Dan; rabbinical responsa discussing issues related to the people date back hundreds of years. One Ethiopian Jew, Adissu Messala, became a member of Knesset, the parliament of Israel. The theory essentially holds the Ethiopian Jews to be the descendants of indigenous non-Jewish Ethiopians, and their belief in ancient Jewish descent to be just a matter of myth and legend. This is not the first time in history that Ethiopian Jews have been asked to reform. Ethiopian Jews, also known as Beta Israel, claim descent from the Tribe of Dan, whose members migrated south along with members of the Tribes of Gad, Asher, and Naphtali, into the Kingdom of Kush, now Ethiopia and Sudan, during the destruction of the First Temple. The latest arrival of Ethiopian Jews — reputedly descendants of the Tribe of Dan — coincided with the two-year anniversary of a yet to be fully implemented government decision to … 1973 — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Israel's Chief Sephardic Rabbi, rules, following the Radbaz, that the Beta Israel are from the tribe of Dan and confirms the Jewish identity of the community. One Ethiopian Jew, Adissu Messala, became a member of Knesset, the parliament of Israel. Located at the 33 rd degree, the ancient tribe of Dan influenced the … Jacques Faitlovitch, one of the first Jewish outsiders to meet the community, told the kessoch in 1904 they would have to stop antiquated paschal sacrifices if they wanted acceptance in the wider Jewish world.

In 1981, the Jewish Defense League protested the "lack of action" to rescue Ethiopian Jews by taking over the main offices of HIAS in Manhattan . With this endorsement, in later decades tens of thousands of Beta Israel Jews were air-lifted to Israel. 25-26). Also worth mentioning is the Chief Rabbi of Egypt who wrote in the sixteenth century confirming the origin of the Beta Israel as Jews from “the tribe of Dan” (as cited in Bleich, 1977, p. 302). This position is supported by former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Exiled from the Land of Israel over 2,500 years ago, the Tribe of Dan settled in Ethiopia. Many Ethiopian Jews also immigrated to Israel to flee the war culture, hostility toward Ethiopian Jews, and famine in Ethiopia during and after the civil war. Ethiopian Jews in Israel are immigrants and descendants of the immigrants from the Beta Israel communities in Ethiopia who now reside in Israel. Hermon/Sion. It is believed that the Jews of Ethiopia are descended from the Tribe of Dan. But, the one Aliya story that is the most miraculous is by far the story of the Ethiopian Jews. He relates to those he encounters the tradition passed down from father to son, that the Jews of Ethiopia are descendants of the exiled tribe of Dan (Sefer Eldad HaDani pg. It's likely that the Ethiopian Jews converted to Judaism some time in the past; they aren't actually descended from the ancient population of the Levant. The Tribe of Dan inherited the pre-flood paganism [Baal worship] of the Canaanites [descendants of Ham and his son, Canaan] who occupied the northern area of Palestine at Mt.