This movie was released in 2005 but I’ve never heard of it. Recently someone recommend it to me, I think I’ll check it out.
Live and Become is a film co-written (Alain-Michel Blanc) and directed byRadu Mihaileanu (Trahir, Train de vie) about the journey of Schlomo, an Ethiopian boy raised as a Christian, who flees to Israel as a result of the massive airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees in what was known as “Operation Moses”.During the Ethiopian civil war, about 10,000 Ethiopian Jews from the Gondar region of Ethiopia were airlifted, between 1984 and 1985 to Israel. There are four main theories surrounding the origins of the Beta Israel: (1) That they may be the lost Israelite tribe of Dan, (2) descendants of Menelik I, son of King Solomon and Queen Sheba, (3) descendants of Ethiopian Christians and pagans who converted to Judaism centuries ago, or descendants of Jews who fled Israel for Egypt after the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE and eventually settled in Ethiopia.
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Interesting…will have to check it out.
