Every #OperationMenashe flight is an exciting moment - for both the new immigrants and those waiting to greet them. This year, Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri came to Ben-Gurion Airport to give his personal blessing for their aliyah, and got more than he bargained for...
Get your handkerchiefs out, because you’re going to need something to contain the emotion as you watch these videos. Families who haven’t seen each other in years break down in tears while whoops and cheers can be heard in the background by the elated new...
Last week was h-u-g-e for the Bnei Menashe. 162 new immigrants from India landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in two separate flights. We already shared pictures from the first flight of #OperationMenashe on Tuesday. But Thursday’s flight was even more emotional, with multiple reunions of families...
In the midst of the excitement over the new arrivals from Manipur, tragedy struck the Bnei Menashe community. On Friday, just a day after the second of two aliyah flights from India landed in Israel, a Palestinian terrorist drove his car into community member Even...
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...
More than 30% of Belmonte Jewish community members suffer from a mysterious visual ailment. Help came, of all places, from their Hebrew teacher! Read the fascinating account of how this came to be....
Rabbi Salas, Shavei Israel's emissary in Portugal, delivered a lecture on kashrut in a most unusual place: at the "Mercadinho" festival ("market" in Portuguese), the Monte do Bispo annual autumn event....
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...
