Hanukah is here and we're happy to light up your day with energetic video from the Shavei Israel Bnei Menashe center in Churachandpur, India. Bnei Menashe youth sing traditional Hanukah songs - in Hebrew and English - from the heart of Manipur....
Every #OperationMenashe flight is an exciting moment - for both the new immigrants and those waiting to greet them. This year, Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri came to Ben-Gurion Airport to give his personal blessing for their aliyah, and got more than he bargained for...
Get your handkerchiefs out, because you’re going to need something to contain the emotion as you watch these videos. Families who haven’t seen each other in years break down in tears while whoops and cheers can be heard in the background by the elated new...
Last week was h-u-g-e for the Bnei Menashe. 162 new immigrants from India landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in two separate flights. We already shared pictures from the first flight of #OperationMenashe on Tuesday. But Thursday’s flight was even more emotional, with multiple reunions of families...
In the midst of the excitement over the new arrivals from Manipur, tragedy struck the Bnei Menashe community. On Friday, just a day after the second of two aliyah flights from India landed in Israel, a Palestinian terrorist drove his car into community member Even...
After many, many hours of traveling, exhaustion didn't stop the 82 Bnei Menashe who immigrated to Israel from India this Tuesday from celebrating full force. We have emotional video of the new olim as they sing and dance their way from the plane to the...
They're here! The first of two flights of Bnei Menashe immigrants arrived at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday night. Eight-two members of the Bnei Menashe community arrived after a grueling trip of several days of planes, trains and automobiles, from their former homes in the...
The countdown to November’s #OperationMenashe aliyah flights from India is ticking fast – just one week and 162 Bnei Menashe will be winging their way from Manipur to their new homes in Israel. One particular woman can barely contain her excitement. Chen Kongsai made aliyah...
The countdown has begun. In only two weeks, 162 Bnei Menashe will be making aliyah to Israel from India as part of 2017’s #Operation Menashe. In this special issue, we look at three Bnei Menashe stories....
For the past seven years, Tzvi Khaute has been Shavei Israel’s coordinator for the Bnei Menashe. He made aliyah in 2000, but left behind his parents and siblings. Now Tzvi's parents - whom all but one of his children have never met - are making...
