Indian jews

Bene Israel community fight to save historic Jabalpur cemetery from land grab, desecration

The Bene Israel community says Jabalpur's historic Jewish cemetery has been vandalized and targeted by alleged land grab attempts, with the case now before India's High Court.

Jabalpur, Jewish Cemetery.
Bnei Menashe olim arriving in Israel, April 23, 2026.

First Bnei Menashe flight lands as Israel launches operation to complete community’s Aliyah

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, meet in Jerusalem in 2017.

Netanyahu to meet with India's PM Modi 'very soon,' PMO says after call between leaders

Newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Manipur in India, members of the 'Bnei Menashe' community arrive to the Ben Gurion international airport on March 22, 2018. The 'Bnei Menashe' community belongs to one of the 10 'lost tribes' of Israel exiled by an Assyrian empire 27 centuries ago.

Gov't approves plan to bring India's remaining 'lost tribe' Bnei Menashe back to Israel


4,000 Indian Jews expected to attend PM Modi address in Israel

According to the Embassy of India in Tel Aviv, Israel is home to approximately 85,000 Jews of Indian-origin, the majority of whom made Israel their home in the 1950s and 1960s.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia, June 2, 2017.

From far-off India to the IDF: An immigrant’s tale

At a ceremony held in Jerusalem, Staff Sergeant Eliezer Menashe ascended the podium as his relatives looked on, and was granted a Medal of Excellence by President Reuven Rivlin.

Reuven Rivlin tells IDF soldiers they are ‘the glory of Israel’ on April 27, 2017  at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem

Indian ambassador encourages Israeli defense firms to partner with Indian firms

Int’l Defense and Homeland Security Expo in June will mark 25 years of diplomatic relations.

SMILING IN HERZLIYA on Tuesday night are (from left) ISDEF President Tomer Avnon, Indian Ambassador Pavan Kapoor, acting NSC head Yaakov Nagel, Indian military attaché Tejpal Singh and ISDEF marketing CEO Jonas Zilkin.

Fundamentally Freund: Operation Menashe 2017 is underway

The group which made aliya last week was the first to arrive in over a year and a half, and the first from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram to move to Israel in more than three years.

NEW IMMIGRANTS upon arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport.

Mom's Mumbai cooking

Brothers Noach and Israel Yitzhak offer down-home Indian food in Tel Aviv.

Ma Pau restaurant

Members of Indian ‘lost Jewish tribe’ visit Auschwitz

Bnei Menashe member says visit strengthened his Jewish identity.

Members of India's lost Jewish tribe visit Auschwitz for first time

India's Modi compares military's 'surgical strike' capabilities to Israel

Modi made the comments in light of a recent clandestine operation conducted by the Indian military that saw multiple Pakistani militant bases in occupied Kashmir destroyed last month.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he gives a speech in front of students at the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo.

A swami, a rabbi, a monk walk into a Jerusalem confab...

A first of its kind meeting of Israeli and Asian faith leaders will be held in September and will host key religious figures from India, China, Japan, Korea and Myanmar.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attend the Taiji and Yoga event at the Temple of Heaven park in Beijing, China on May 15

Future prosperity in India must go hand in hand with the country’s rural sides

It is not surprising that Prime Minister Narendra Modi initiated a diplomatic pivot to Israel in 2014.

ndian Prime Minister visits an IAI booth at Aero India 2015 exhibitition

A new arrival to Calcutta gives its Jewish population a bump, to 9

Flower Silliman has taken it upon herself to preserve the food tradition of the dwindling Jewish population of Calcutta.

Magen David Synagogue is located at the junction of Brabourne Road and Canning Street in Kolkata and was built in 1884 by Elias David Joseph Ezra.