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Nimeiri quickly came under intense pressure from Western governments to find a way to help the Falashas on humanitarian grounds.

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That was when Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef decreed that the Falashas are "undoubtedly of the tribe of Dan," the inhabitants of the biblical land of Havileh in what is today the southern Arabian Peninsula.

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C-130 military transport planes flew into Sudan and took an estimated 900 Falashas to Israel for resettlement.

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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.

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What he rescued and published is enough to give us a more detailed and accurate account of the Falashas than we have hitherto possessed.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav