Falasha
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Falasha
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The derogatory name Falasha refers to a community of Ethiopian Jews or to a member of this community, most of whom now live in Israel. The Amharic word falasha means "outsider, exile," and this name was given to the Ethiopian Jews by other Ethiopians. The community refers to itself as Beta Israel.
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Origin of Falasha
First recorded in 1710–15; from Amharic fälasha “immigrant, exile, stranger,” from fälash, active participle of fälläsä “to migrate”
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A major setback to the program is the fact that Falasha refugees in Sudan have blended into the anonymity of the camps and are sharing in the tragic fate of their other occupants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nimeiri's offer to allow the evacuation of Falasha refugees to nations other than Israel did not draw any immediate criticism from fellow members of the Arab League.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foreign Minister Hashem Osman called in Arab, African and Asian diplomats to charge that Ethiopia had been "closing its eyes" to the Falasha exodus in return for weapons and money from Israel.
From Time Magazine Archive
That obviously opened the door to Falasha rescue operations organized by Western governments, perhaps with the eventual goal of quietly resettling the Falashas in Israel.
From Time Magazine Archive
I visited, in company with Mr. Flad, the Bishop of Jerusalem's Scripture Reader, upwards of thirty Falasha settlements, and saw the priests, and all those that could read, from more than fifty-five other places.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
That left several thousand Falashas still in Sudan, many with relatives already in Israel.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to Moshe Gilboa, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official, the resettlement of the Falashas "rejects the cruel and ignorant assumption that Zionism is equated with racism."
From Time Magazine Archive
The total number of Falashas has dwindled from several hundred thousand at the beginning of the century to some 25,000, scattered mostly throughout Ethiopia's remote northwestern Gondar province.
From Time Magazine Archive
Israeli and American officials had been attempting to negotiate with Mengistu for the emigration of the Falashas for months.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the inhabitants are numbers of Mahommedans, and there is a settlement of Falashas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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