ten tribes of israel
31Shavei Israel — Shavei Israel, ( he. שבי ישראל, Israel returns ) is an Israeli based Jewish organization that was founded by Michael Freund. It comprises a team of academics, educators and rabbinical figures. Its main goal is to locate lost Jews and assist them… …
32Manasseh ben Israel — orig. Manoel Dias Soeiro born 1604, Lisbon? died Nov. 20, 1657, Middelburg, United Provinces of the Netherlands Portuguese born Dutch Hebrew scholar and Jewish leader. He was born to a family of Marranos whom persecution drove to Amsterdam. A… …
33Manasseh ben-Israel — (1604–67) Amsterdam rabbi. Manasseh was the son of a Marrano family in Portuguese Madeira, and was baptized Manoel Dias Soeiro. Soon after his birth his parents settled in Amsterdam. There they became openly Jewish, the father adopting the… …
Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament
34BONAFOUX, DANIEL BEN ISRAEL — (c. 1645–after 1710), Shabbatean prophet. Bonafoux was born in Salonika, and settled in Smyrna and served there as a ḥazzan in the Pinto synagogue. He was a follower of Shabbetai Ẓevi and even after his apostasy Bonafoux continued to be a leading …
35lost tribes — the members of the ten tribes of ancient Israel who were taken into captivity in 722 B.C. by Sargon II of Assyria and are believed never to have returned to Palestine. II Kings 17:1 23. * * * …
36LOST TRIBES — the ten tribes of the race of Israel whom the Assyrians carried off into captivity (see 2 Kings xvii. 6), and of whom all trace has been lost, and only in recent years guessed at …
37Beta Israel — ביתא ישראל Shlomo Molla …
38BETA ISRAEL — BETA ISRAEL, ethno religious group in Ethiopia which claims to be of Jewish origin and which is attached to a form of the Jewish religion based on the Bible, certain books of the Apocrypha, and other post biblical Scripture; living in the… …
39Archaeology of Israel — The archaeology of Israel is researched intensively in the universities of the region and also attracts considerable international interest on account of the region s Biblical links.Excavation in Israel continues at a relatively rapid pace and is …
40Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan/Israel Mixed Armistice Commission — At the closing of the 1948 Arab Israeli War a Truce (General Armistice Agreement) was signed between Hashemite Jordan Kingdom and Israel on the 3 April 1949 [ [http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/f03d55e48f77ab6985256… …
