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Thursday, January 17, 2013 

2000 members of Bnei Menashe come to Israel

Members of a lost Jewish tribe from India have come to live in Israel:
Israel marked an aliyah (immigration) milestone Thursday with the arrival of the 2,000th member of the Bnei Menashe community. Eighteen-year-old Mirna Singsit arrived in Israel along with 53 other members of the community, including her parents and three siblings.

The Bnei Menashe live in the Manipur state in northeastern India. They claim descent from the Biblical tribe of Menashe, one of the ten “lost tribes” exiled when the Assyrians invaded the northern kingdom of Israel.
Now, it remains to be seen if any Chinese descendants of the old Kai-Feng community will ever come around.

Update: extra article from The Jerusalem Post.

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12:54 PM |

The Kaifeng descendants are coming with help from Shavei Israel.

Posted by Anonymous Anonymous | 1/17/2013 09:56:00 PM   

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