The new Miss Israel is 21 year old Ethiopian beauty Yityish Aynaw, a former IDF Army officer who made aliyah (resettlement in Israel) when she was 12. Mazel Tov!How very fascinating and heart warming is the story of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel. Although not without problems, the efforts of the Israeli government to resettle and embrace Beta Israel, this ancient Jewsih community, are to be commended.
My Rabbi is somewhat of a skeptic. He feels that the Ethiopian Jews are unlikely to be the lost tribe of Dan or the descendents of Menelik, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He thinks it is most likely that they converted to Judaism after some Jewish traveler settled among them. Hahaha, sometimes I think my Rabbi takes a bit too little on faith!
Yityish means "a look to the future" in the Amharic language of Ethiopia. She is well named.
And beautiful too!
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