A Jewish humanitarian organization has completed an airlift of medical materials to enclaves of Ethiopian Jews as the ongoing Israeli conflict with Hamas has complicated established aid in the region.

With rebels on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Israel began flying an estimated 16,000 Jews out of the country _ all that remain of a community that traces its heritage to biblical times.

As assistant secretary for African Affairs, I was approached by a Mossad operative who laid out Israel’s daring plan — an unprecedented airlift to whisk over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in less ...

A celebration of four decades since the first Israeli operation to rescue Ethiopian Jews and bring them to the holy land was held by the government in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin ...

The community was cut off from the rest of the Jewish world for more than 1,000 years. About 120,000 Ethiopian Jews live in Israel today, a small minority in a country of 7 million.

And there have been scandals, such as in 1996, when it emerged that Magen David Adom, Israel’s national blood bank, had been dumping donations from Ethiopian Jews due to fears over HIV/AIDS.

A generation of Israeli schoolchildren has grown up on such stirring stories as "Operation Magic Carpet," the semi-clandestine airlift that brought some 45,000 Jews out of Yemen between 1949 and 1950.

Thousands of Ethiopians who say their Jewish roots entitle them to live in Israel are stuck in a squalid camp in Ethiopia, their dream of a promised land fading as Israel scrutinises their family ...