Gov't approves plan to bring India's remaining 'lost tribe' Bnei Menashe back to Israel
The new immigrants will undergo Orthodox conversion through the Chief Rabbinate and will mainly settle in Nof HaGalil and other northern communities.
Newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Manipur in India, members of the 'Bnei Menashe' community arrive to the Ben Gurion international airport on March 22, 2018. The 'Bnei Menashe' community belongs to one of the 10 'lost tribes' of Israel exiled by an Assyrian empire 27 centuries ago.(photo credit: YOSSI ZAMIR/FLASH90)ByALEX WINSTONUpdated:
