The Internet has been all abuzz in the past few weeks with video about Shavei Israel. We wanted to share a few of those links with you. The video is from a group of Benie Menashe visiting the Western Wall for the first time. You...
More than 2,700 years after their ancestors had been exiled from the Land of Israel, a group of recent immigrants from the Bnei Menashe visited their forefather Joseph’s tomb, the first rendezvous of its kind. Shavei Israel helped one hundred Bnei Menashe pay an emotional...
Arutz 7 TV's Yoni Kempinski was at Ben-Gurion Airport last week to greet the third flight of Bnei Menashe to make aliyah. He interviews Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund, Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom and Miriam, a young Bnei Menashe new immigrant. The three minute...
Forth-five new immigrant families from Manipur India have moved to the ancient city of Safed in the Upper Galilee. They left the Kfar Hasidim absorption center, where they first landed after making aliyah, several months ago. A team led by Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund...
When the Bnei Menashe arrive in Israel, their Jewish journey is not completely over: they still must undergo a formal conversion. In charge of that is the Chief Rabbinate's Conversion Authority, which pays regular visits to the Kfar Hasidim absorption center to meet the Bnei...
Last month, we published the first part of a video documentary produced by Israel's Channel 10 on the Bnei Menashe. Channel 10 reporter Roy Sharon accompanied Shavei Israel on a journey to Manipur. Part 2 of the documentary is now available with English subtitles. Click...
In December, we reported on Shavei Israel director of marketing Laura Ben-David’s visit to the Bnei Menashe in Manipur. In the story, we mentioned that Israel’s Channel 10 went to India, too, and was working on a full-length documentary about the community. The video came...
The Internet has been all abuzz in the past few weeks with video about Shavei Israel. We wanted to share a few of those links with you. First, a group of Bnei Menashe who made aliyah earlier this year paid their first visit to the...
New on the Shavei Israel website: a video documenting the November 2014 aliyah of a group of Bnei Menashe. The 5-minute video includes moving footage of the Bnei Menashe as they head towards the arrival hall at Ben-Gurion Airport, as well as a meeting with...
When the Bnei Menashe arrive at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport after the long flight from India, Shavei Israel’s buses transport them directly to their new life in the Kfar Hasidim absorption center in the north of the country. There, the new immigrants jump straight into a...
