India’s Bnei Menashe celebrate Hanukkah
Descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel staged a candle-lighting ceremony and prayed for Hamas hostages and IDF soldiers on the frontlines.
Descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel staged a candle-lighting ceremony and prayed for Hamas hostages and IDF soldiers on the frontlines.
New immigrants from northeast India landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in a special operation to bring these descendants of the Tribe of Menashe to Israel.
Thousands of Bnei Menashe in northeast India began coming back to their ancestors’ homeland in the 1980s. About 6,000 more are waiting to join them.
Hailing from northeast India, the Bnei Menashe community is said to be descended from the biblical Lost Tribes of Israel.