Ethiopian-Israeli community: Table 1

Ethiopian-Israeli community.

The Ethiopian-Jewish community in Israel is an immigrant population numbering 131 400 as of 2012. Many arrived from 1980 to 1992 by airborne operations coordinated by the Israeli government. Immigration was prompted by Israeli recognition of the community's Jewish citizenship eligibility status. This period in Israel's history saw the First Lebanon War, the First Intifada, the Gulf War and the ...

Serum immunoglobulin E levels in Israeli-Ethiopian children: environment and genetics.

BACKGROUND Since 1984, several waves of Ethiopian immigrants have settled in Israel. On arrival they were found to be highly infected with intestinal parasites and to have increased serum immunoglobulin E and eosinophilia. OBJECTIVES To study serum IgE levels in Ethiopian children growing up in the environment of Israel. METHODS We assessed four groups of children of Ethiopian origin: a) ad...

"One people, one blood": public health, political violence, and HIV in an Ethiopian-Israeli setting.

Between 1984 and 1996, public health authorities in Israel maintained a secret policy of discarding blood donations made by Ethiopian-Israeli citizens and immigrants. Officials later attempted to justify this policy on the grounds that immigrants from Ethiopia were subject to high rates of infectious disease (especially HIV). In 1996, this led to an explosive and violent confrontation between E...

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Hypertension control in the community--an Israeli experience.