African Jewish communities include: * Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews living primarily in the Maghreb of North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia, as well as Sudan and Egypt. Some were established early in the diaspora; others after the expulsion from Iberia in the late 15th century. * South African Jews, who are mostly Ashkenazi Jews descended from post-Holocaust immigrant Lithuanian Jews. * Beta Israel living primarily in the Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia and sparsely in Eritrea. * Berber Jews, the majority of whom were assimilated and converted to Islam, especially during the historical persecutions of the Almohadic Caliphate in the Middle Ages. The modern population of Berber Jews in Africa now numbers about 8,000 people in Morocco, with the majority havi