Who are Bnei Menashe, the Manipuri community believed to be one of the ten ‘lost tribes of Israel’?
It is a ‘homecoming’ for around 240 Indians as they landed in the Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on Thursday. That is because they are believed to be the descendants of a biblical Jewish tribe. The Bnei Menashe tribe (Sons of Manasseh) is a tribal community spread across Manipur and Mizoram and claims to descend…