Israel approved a plan to bring the remaining “Bnei Menashe” community from India to Israel.
About 1,200 are expected to arrive by 2026 with a budget of 90 million shekels for immigration, conversion, housing in absorption centers, Hebrew studies, and employment support.
A second phase aims to bring 4,600 more by 2030, completing the community’s aliyah and reuniting families.
A delegation from state agencies and the Sephardi Chief Rabbinate will travel to India within a week to evaluate eligibility.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said the move is “important and Zionist.”
The Bnei Menashe claim that they are descendants of the tribe of Menashe, exiled from Eretz Yisroel more than 2,700 years ago, by the Assyrian empire.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Every Goy who claims to be pseudo-Jewish gets an Israeli visa. This already started in Ethiopia.
It’s a good thing they dont have payos…one less religious vestige for the zionists to cut away before their ‘absorption’ into the wonderful medina….
Israel you better double down on giving to your own here in Israel or let those who think they belong here remain where they are……they do not belong in a world they did not earn
There is very unlikely to be any truth to their claims. They had no Jewish traditions until after they had contact with Xian missionaries, from whom they learned what little they know.
However of course those who have been megayer are 100% Jews, just like any ger.