{"id":75313,"date":"2025-11-27T15:15:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=75313"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T06:30:43","slug":"bnei-menashe-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bnei-menashe-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Bnei Menashe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bnei Menashe Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel&#8217;s government recently approved a proposal to bring all the remaining 5,800 Jews from India&#8217;s north-eastern region, commonly referred to as Bnei Menashe, over the next five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bnei Menashe<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bnei Menashe is an <\/span><b>ethnic community<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that hails from the northeastern states of <\/span><b>Mizoram and Manipur.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They claim to be the <\/span><b>descendants of the biblical tribe of Manasseh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, considered<\/span><b> one of the &#8220;lost tribes&#8221; of Israel.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>Christians converted into Jews<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>observe traditional Jewish practices<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and celebrate holidays such as Sukkot.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historians believe this community may have <\/span><b>arrived in India <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">within the <\/span><b>last 300\u2013500 years.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Their ancestors were exiled long before the Roman dispersion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but they <\/span><b>continued to practice Judaism <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">across the generations, even if not in a contemporary Orthodox way.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once they\u00a0 came into contact with Israel and global Jewry in the 1980s, they <\/span><b>embraced modern Jewish learning and practice.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Nearly half <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the &#8216;Bnei Menashe&#8217; population <\/span><b>migrated to Israel <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over a period of time and became its citizens.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the recent Israeli <\/span><b>Government plan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, approximately <\/span><b>1,200 community members <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are expected <\/span><b>to immigrate to Israel by the end of 2026.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>A second stage, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slated for completion<\/span><b> by 2030<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, will <\/span><b>bring an additional 4,600 people, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">effectively completing the arrival of the entire community.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/israel-approves-proposal-to-bring-all-remaining-5800-jews-from-indias-northeast\/article70321468.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bnei Menashe is an ethnic community that hails from the northeastern states of Mizoram and Manipur. 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