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Perhaps significantly, the Jews of Ethiopia had been in close communication with Yemenite Jews until Operation Magic Carpet transported the Yemenite Jewish community to Israel 35 years ago. Not until 1975 did Israeli authorities grant the black Jews of Ethiopia the right to citizen- ship under the Law of Return. Until the requirement was waiv- ed just this past November, Ethiopian adult males still had to submit in Israel to a form of conversion including a symbolic second circumcision (the shed- ding of a drop of blood). Nor were Ethiopian priests recogniz- ed as rabbis (the first Ethiopian- born rabbi was ordained in Israel earlier this year. Until now, efforts by suc- cessive Israeli governments to bring about an Ethiopian aliyah were either frustrated, accor- ding to apologists, or lackluster, according to critics. Even I§rael's most ardent partisans concede now that Menachem Begin was the first prime minister to embrace the dream of an Ethiopian aliyah. He pro- mised a operation — this one, as it turned out — much more dramatic than any other Israeli exploit. Most Jews remaining in Ethiopia cluster in small villages scattered around the Gondar province, located to the north and west of Addis Ababa. The Sudan lies to the west. To the east and north are the Tigray and Eritrean provinces, hotbeds of resistance to Mengistu's rule and very hard hit by the famine. Further east is Somalia, also warring with Mengistu. Rebel groups are reported to control large segments of the countryside, especially at night. Our group's scheduled tour of the fabled rock castles of Lalibela was canceled when the government lost con- trol of the region only two weeks before our arrival. If it doesn't rain next month, the killing famine will surely strike next in Gondar. As we made our way across the parch- ed fields to visit five Jewish villages, we could see that fields which should have been green at that season were brown. The meager crops in the cultivated fields — te'ef, the basic grain like sorgum, used to make the Ethiopian bread, ingira; some sorgum, and a few ears of corn — were stunted and dry. It didn't take an agricultural ex- pert to recognize what the deep cracks and fissures cutting through the soil meant. Walleka, one of scores of small villages in Gondar, may be the Ethiopian govenment's Jewish "show village," — the one where they take all the tourists. But the women there still grow goiters the size of grapefruits. Babies' eyes ooze with fly- attracting pus from trachoma. Young boys' legs swell and fester with untreated sores. A few women wear robes em- broidered with six-pointed stars and pose charmingly for tourists' photographs. Many