Final batch of Mizo Jews reaches Israel

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Aizawl, Dec 6: With the arrival of the final batch of 65 'BneoMenashe' or Mizo Jews in Tel Aviv yesterday, the largest exodus of thelost Israeli tribe from India to Israel has almost concluded.

Jeremiah Hnamte, who was supervising the travel of the Mizo Jewsfrom Mumbai said that the this would complete the migration of 217'lost tribes to Israel' led by Rabbi Hanoch Avizidik to the 'PromisedLand'.

Sources from Shavei Israel Hebrew Centre said that it will bearall the travel expenses for the Mizo Jews and added that the newmigrants would be first settled in the nothern Carmiel region andNazareth.

''They would be settled there for an year and learn Hebrewlanguage and religious and social traditions of the Jews. Suitable jobswould be arranged for them after which they would be free to stayanywhere they pleased," the officials said.

The first batch comprising 54 people arrived at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport from Mumbai on November 21.

Earlier, the Mizo Jews, who were formally converted to the newfaith at the 'Mikvah' or Jewish ritual baths at Zuangtui locality hereby rabbis from Israel, left Aizawl for Mumbai via Kolkata on November15 and 16.

According to the officials, Amar has declared Bnei Menashe'descendants of the Jewish people' and has been working to helpfacilitate the 'aliya', the conversion, of those who want to live inIsrael.

About 7000 Bnei Menashe live in the NE states of Mizoram andManipur. They trace their descent to the tribe of Menashe, one of the10 tribes expelled from ancient Israel by the Assyrians.

They claim their ancestors wandered eastward toward China, theneventually settled to the south in what is now NE India and nearybyMyanmar.

In 722-721 BC, the Ten Tribes who comprised the northern kingdom of Israel disappeared.

Conquered by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser V, they were exiled to upper Mesopotamia and Medes, the modern day Syria and Iraq.

The tribes had never been seen since.


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