“India is not our country,” says Haniel Reuben, 72, one of the older members of a small clan claiming descent from the Manasseh, one of Israel’s historical “lost tribes” deported by Assyrian conquerors in 720 BC.
A group of men prays in a synagogue in northeast India for the chance to “return home” to a country they have never seen and from which their forefathers departed nearly 3,000 years ago.
“India is not our country,” says Haniel Reuben, 72, one of the older members of a small clan claiming descent from the Manasseh, one of Israel’s historical “lost tribes” deported by Assyrian conquerors in 720 BC.
“Our forefathers came here and settled. Our homeland is Israel, and we shall one day be reunited with our people “Reuben stated his opinion.
