According to the Washington Times in 2006,Many think the Bnei Ephraim Jews are trying to escape poverty and that they want to leave this region of Andhra Pradesh where six successive years of drought and crop failure have driven more than 3,000 peasants into debt and to suicide.Chandra Sekhar Angadi, a social scientist in neighboring <MASK>, said of the Telugu Jews: They are among the poorest of Jews in the world.
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