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NEW PICTURES: 40 more Bnei Menashe make aliyah
Soldier and grandma
Soldier and grandma at Ben-Gurion Airport
  
The aliyah from India continues: 40 Bnei Menashe arrived this past Thursday and another 80 are scheduled to land in Israel before the end of the month. The most recent immigrants were greeted at Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel by MK Yariv Levin (Likud) who has staunchly supported the community's aliyah. "Welcome to Eretz Yisrael. Welcome home!" Levin told them.
  
The date of the group's arrival had special significance: it was on the holiday of Tu B'Shvat, when many Israelis plant trees and celebrate their connection with the land. "Your arrival provides us all with yet another reason to celebrate," Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund told the new olim (immigrants). "Your return, after more than 2,700 years, is proof that the ingathering of the Exiles continues to move forward."
 
The new arrivals included a grandfather who had never before seen any of his 13 Israeli-born grandchildren, and a mother who had been separated from her daughter, son-in-law and four grandchildren for more than seven years.

 

We have some fabulous pictures of the group -  click here to view them all.
 
Ten dental assistants from India and Peru graduate from Shavei program at Hadassah
Hadassah Dental School graduates from India and Peru (with Efrat Kedem, left)
Hadassah Dental School graduates from India and Peru
(with Efrat Kedem, front row, left)
It was a modest ceremony for a modest group, in number, demeanor and dress. But the graduation of ten students from the Hadassah Dental School in Jerusalem on December 31, 2013, as part of a program sponsored by Shavei Israelwill make much more than a modest impact on the lives of Israel's newest dental assistants. 
 
Shavei Israel has been running the program since 2008, enabling a total of 34 young women from the Bnei Menashe of northeastern India and the Bnei Moshe of Peru, all of whom have made aliyah with Shavei Israel's help, to train for in-demand new careers, in many cases pulling their families out of poverty in the process. 
 

Roots #131- Jan. 14, 2014 

 

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