health officials had for many years actively encouraged Ethiopian woman to take long-term birth control injections. This happened in a country that values few things more than childbearing. Interviewed on Israeli television, several women testified in 2013 that they had been coerced into taking the injections while still in transit camps in Ethiopia.

Socioeconomic gaps

An estimated 126,000 Jews of Ethiopian descent live in Israel today, accounting for 2 percent of the population. After Operation Moses, the next big immigration wave came in 1991, when Israel airlifted more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to the country in a covert 36-hour operation that came to be known as Operation Solomon. This second operation overlapped with the huge immigration wave just getting under way from what was still the Soviet Union.

The Soviet immigrantsArgentinean New York 2008 - Boca Junior

Named after a beloved soccer team, Boca Junior excels at all the usual South American steaks, but what really wowed us was the eggplant salad?a barely cooked, vinegar-laced julienne of the Barney-colored vegetable.