Israel National News's Yoni Kempinski covered the arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport of the first flight for November's #OperationMenashe. He interviewed Chen and Yaakov, who haven't seen Chen's sister and Yaakov's mother for many years. They tell Yoni what their life has been life since making...
After many, many hours of traveling, exhaustion didn't stop the 82 Bnei Menashe who immigrated to Israel from India this Tuesday from celebrating full force. We have emotional video of the new olim as they sing and dance their way from the plane to the...
They're here! The first of two flights of Bnei Menashe immigrants arrived at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday night. Eight-two members of the Bnei Menashe community arrived after a grueling trip of several days of planes, trains and automobiles, from their former homes in the...
The countdown to November’s #OperationMenashe aliyah flights from India is ticking fast – just one week and 162 Bnei Menashe will be winging their way from Manipur to their new homes in Israel. One particular woman can barely contain her excitement. Chen Kongsai made aliyah...
The countdown has begun. In only two weeks, 162 Bnei Menashe will be making aliyah to Israel from India as part of 2017’s #Operation Menashe. In this special issue, we look at three Bnei Menashe stories....
Zara Eleazer Singson is one of 100 Bnei Menashe making aliyah from India this November, as part of the next wave of Shavei Israel’s Operation Menashe. Zara's father dreamed of a new life in Israel, but passed away in 2013. Now Zara carries his father's...
One hundred Bnei Menashe are due to make aliyah in November, with Shavei Israel's help. The new group is coming from the Indian state of Manipur and will arrive on two flights of 50 people each. Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund will be accompanying them...
Lyon Fanai is one of the Bnei Menashe immigrants who, with Shavei Israel's help, made aliyah to Israel. He wrote a personal Passover "dayenu" to express his gratitude to Shavei Israel for making his life long journey possible. "That would have been enough...
They're here! The first group of 30 immigrants from India as part of Operation Menashe 2017 have landed at Ben-Gurion Airport. Shavei Israel's director of marketing and new media Laura Ben-David was there and shot some amazing photos, as the group makes their way through...
Operation Menashe 2017 is underway. The first of 30 new immigrants from the Indian state of Mizoram are heading to their new lives in Israel. We have pictures of the excitement, from packing their bags to their final moments in India before boarding their plane...
