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Group in India 'descended from Joseph' struggled to 'return home'
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[/align]Posted: August 30, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Members of 'lost tribe of Israel' arrive at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Shavei Israel)
TEL AVIV "“ One-hundred-seventy-four people from a group of thousands in India that believes it is one of the 10 "lost tribes" of Israel landed here this week, fulfilling for many a life-long dream of returning to what they consider their homeland. http://www.shavei.org/][/url]Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based organization led by American Michael Freund, hopes to bring to the Jewish state the remaining 7,000 Indian citizens who believe they are the Bnei Menashe, the descendants of Manasseh, one of biblical patriarch Joseph's two sons and a grandson of Jacob.
The tribe lives in the two Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur, to which they claim to have been exiled from Israel more than 2,700 years ago by the Assyrian empire.
"I truly believe this is a miracle of immense historical and even biblical significance," Freund told WND as the group of 174 arrived here earlier this week.
"Just as the prophets foretold so long ago, the lost tribes of Israel are being brought back from the exile," said Freund, who previously served as deputy communications director under former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Another planeload of 57 Bnei Menashe is slated to touch down in Israel tomorrow.
Bnei Menashe member arriving in Israel (Courtesy Shavei Israel)
Bnei Menashe member (Courtesy Shavei Israel)
Bnei Menashe member (Courtesy Shavei Israel)
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