250 members of the Bnei Menashe community of Northern India will start new lives in the Jewish State this summer. The Bnei Menashe trace their roots to the Biblical Jewish tribe of Menashe who were taken into captivity from the Land of Israel by the Assyrians more than 2,700 years ago.
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