One hundred and two members of the Jewish community in India, who trace their heritage to one of Israel’s lost tribes, are moving to Israel this week.
The immigrants, who hail from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram — home to the second largest concentration of the country’s Bnei Menashe community, as they are called — will arrive in Israel on Tuesday and Thursday. The move is being facilitated by Shavei Israel, a nonprofit that
seeks
to connect “lost” and “hidden” Jews to the Jewish state.
Radi se o odlasku u Izrael 102 člana Židovske zajednice u Indiji, koji vode nasljeđe od jednog od Izraelskih "izgubljenih plemena". Imigranti su živjeli u najsjevernijoj indijskoj državi Mizoram, gdje se nalazi dom za drugu najveću koncentraciju Bnei Menache zajednice. Selidba je pomognuta od "
Shavei Israel,"
neprofitne organizacija koja omogućava kontakte sa Izraeloskom državom za "izgubljene" ili "sakrivene " Židove.
Grupa namjerava živjeti u gradu
Nazareth Illit, gdje su se već naselili drugi članovi njihove zajednice. Oko 3.000 Bnei Menashe su imigrirali u Izrael posljednjih godina , a u Indiji je ostalo još 7.000.
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“After 27 centuries of exile, this lost tribe of Israel is truly coming home,” said Shavei Israel founder Michael Freund. “But we will not rest until all the remaining Bnei Menashe still in India are able to make aliyah as well.”
In December, as they have in years past, thousands of members of the Bnei Menashe community gathered to celebrate Hanukkah in the town of Churachandpur, in the northeastern state of Manipur.