The World - News from July 24, 1985
Ethiopian Jews, who have angrily protested the refusal of Israel’s two chief rabbis to fully recognize them as Jewish, won a concession. After the rabbis met with Prime Minister Shimon Peres, they announced that the Ethiopian immigrants will be treated like other Jews and required to take a symbolic bath only before marriage in cases where their Jewishness is doubted. Chief Rabbis Avraham Shapira and Mordechai Eliahu had demanded that the entire community of 15,000 Ethiopian Jews undergo the ritual.
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