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...
Every day, the Israel Defense Force's Facebook page presents a new snippet on a soldier or an IDF program that will make you proud. This week, the IDF highlighted "Private Daniel," a member of the Bnei Menashe community who made aliyah to Israel in 2006...
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...
Shavei Israel’s director of marketing and new media Laura Ben-David wound up a whirlwind trip to the United States this week where she spoke about Shavei Israel’s activities at Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Federations and synagogues. Laura’s itinerary has taken her so far to St....
Our report on the Bnei Menashe high schoolers who visited Poland has been picked up by the Jewish media. Publications including The San Diego Jewish World, Jewocity, Algemeiner and The Jewish News Service have all featured it. Check out the coverage for this important story....
Five teenagers from the Bnei Menashe Jewish community visited Auschwitz as part of a trip for 12th-graders aimed at educating them about the horrors of the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people. It's the first time a group from India has joined in this Israeli...
Reuben Touthang made aliyah from India in 1998. He has served in the army for ten years now, in a unit in charge of maintaining the Gaza border fence. In 2008, he was hit by a sniper and he was seriously injured. But he recovered...
