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...
It's that time of year again: when the Jewish world puts on a happy face - literally. When the masks come off, it's nothing but smiles as Jewish communities everywhere celebrate the holiday of Purim. And we've got the photos to prove it. Here are...
The latest aliyah wave of Bnei Menashe new immigrants is now settling in to the temporary homes at Shavei Israel's Kfar Hasidim absorption center, where the Bnei Menashe will stay for the next three months while they learn Hebrew, Judaism, and the basics of life...
Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund appeared this week on the Swedish Christian television station Himlen TV7. The extensive, nearly 30-minute long interview is in English and has Swedish subtitles. In it, Michael discusses the latest aliyah of the Bnei Menashe, Shavei Israel activities and his...
“I lived in Florida and I ate a lot of Mexican food with jalapeno peppers. I thought I knew hot, but I never tasted anything as spicy as the ‘king pepper,’” Yitzhak Eicoff recalls. But since Yitzhak married Bnei Menashe Hadassa Tungdim from Manipur India,...
The group which made aliya last week was the first to arrive in over a year and a half, and the first from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram to move to Israel in more than three years. Last week, less than a month shy of...
The 102 Bnei Menashe immigrants who arrived in Israel from India last week are settling into their new home at the Kfar Hasidim absorption center. We have some pictures of the group here. The newcomers from Mizoram will live in Kfar Hasidim for about 3...
The second of two aliyah flights last week landed on Thursday. Seventy-two Bnei Menashe from Mizoram arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport where they were met by scores of Israelis overjoyed by the latest immigration from India. We caught the excitement on video and we have it...
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...
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...
