Wikipedia's article on Ethiopian Jews in Israel, consulted 2026-08-16, giving the Operation Solomon airlift figure of 14,325 Beta Israel flown to Israel in under thirty six hours in May 1991, and Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics count of the country's Ethiopian-origin Jewish population, 177,600 as of 2024. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Jews_in_Israel
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a general encyclopedia article rather than a specialist study, but one whose population figures for Operation Solomon and for Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics count are attributed to named contemporaneous reporting and an official statistics agency rather than to the encyclopedia's own estimate. Connections
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This source names Beta Israel directly: "Solomon airlift figure of 14,325 Beta Israel flown to Israel in under thirty six hours in May 1991, and Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics count of the country's Ethiopian-origin Jewish..."
Source Ethiopian Jews in Israel (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
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