So far, about 3,000 Bnei Menashe have moved to Israel and undergone the conversion process. Some 7,000 others are waiting to come, puzzled why the Israeli government restricts them to 700 a year.
NEWLY ARRIVED Jewish immigrants from India cry upon arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport in 2006. The immigrants are members of the Bnei Menashe community from India’s remote northeastern states of Mizoram and Manipur(photo credit: REUTERS/GIL COHEN MAGEN)ByBARBARA SOFER
