There are 899 Indian Jews from Manipur and Mizoram who are members of the “lost” Bnei Menashe tribe who can now live and work in the Jewish state.
The cabinet voted last week to allow the Indian Bnei Menashe community to move to Israel in groups. The first group is expected to arrive at the end of the year, and the rest will follow.
Some people in northeast India are called “Bnei Menashe,” which means “son of Menashe.” They come from one of the ten “lost tribes,” which were exiled by the Assyrian regime more than 2,700 years ago.
