Bnei Menashe Approved to Move to Israel

Article: Approximately 900 people from Bnei Menashe--Jews claiming to descend from the biblical tribe of Menashe--have been approved by the Israeli Knesset to make aliyah. They are joining a previous aliyah wave and will come over the next year. They live in India and Burma and are formally converting to Judaism from Christianity. Before being converted to Christianity by missionaries, the tribe practiced animism (praying to animals/plants/physical world) and headhunting (taking and severing a person's head after killing them). They believe that their founder was Menashe, from one of the 12 Lost Tribes of Israel.