More than 250 Jews from the Bnei Menashe community in northern India, including infants and the elderly, arrived at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Tuesday to begin a new life in Israel. One hundred and fifty of them are couples, twenty-four are singles, and four are newborns.
There are 50 families, 24 singles, four children under the age of two, and 19 seniors among them. In October, the Israeli government approved their request to immigrate.
They went through immigration after they landed.
90% of them have finished the aliyah (immigration) permit process and will soon be taken to a Shavei Israel absorption center in the Nordiya moshav close to Netanya, a member of the Bnei Menashe community at the airport said.
