In 1973, ר׳ עובדיה יוסף R. OVADʾYA YOSEF ruled that ביתא ישראל BETA YISRAʾEL were יהודים YEHUDIM.

In 1973, ר׳ עובדיה יוסף R. OVADʾYA YOSEF ruled that ביתא ישראל BETA YISRAʾEL were יהודים YEHUDIM. TJD's earlier hub linked this ruling to a nonexistent standalone article and assigned it an unverified 7 Adar I date. The ruling remains essential to the chronology, but it should not receive a numbered Hebrew day until a dated primary document is located.¹