Did you want to come to Ben-Gurion Airport to greet the latest Bnei Menashe aliyah flights from India, but you couldn't make it? Never fear - through the wonders of Facebook, we can take you there. Visit Shavei Israel's Facebook page to watch three videos...
102 Bnei Menashe from Mizoram are making aliyah this week. The first group of 30 arrived Tuesday night. 72 more will land at Ben-Gurion Airport on Thursday. It's the first aliyah from Mizoram since January 2014 and the start of Operation Menashe 2017 which will...
"After 2,700 years we have the opportunity to bring the Bnei Menashe back to our people and to our land. So why do so many of you sit on the sidelines and not get involved?" Those were the words of Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund...
When Avital Hnamte began to publicly identify as a Jew in India some twenty years ago, the teenage Bnei Menashe woman encountered a hostile environment. “The kids in my school didn’t hide their hate,” she recalls. “They called me names." But through the strength of...
Ever hear the one about the singing carpenter? His name is Itzkhak Fanai and along with his wife and two children, he is one of the one hundred Bnei Menashe who are planning their aliyah next month. Itzkhak gets his nickname through a combination of...
Twenty Bnei Menashe from the Indian state of Mizoram are due to arrive in Israel by the end of December. It will be the first group to make aliyah in 2016 and the fifth flight Shavei Israel has arranged since the Bnei Menashe immigration resumed...
Yotam Ginminthang Baite is 32 years old, with his own carpentry business, living on India’s northeastern border with Myanmar. All of his family - his parents, his siblings and their families - have already made aliyah to Israel. Finally Yotam, his wife and children are...
“This was the first time I really understood what aliyah is all about,” said Tomer Yamtovich as he headed back to the bus after an emotionally uplifting hour of singing, dancing, clapping, hugging and unrestrained joy at Ben-Gurion Airport last week. Tomer is a student...
