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Chang’an

Lanzhou

DunhuangTurfan

KashgarMerv

TehranBaghdad

Damascus

Antioch

BukharaSamarkand

Gozan

Bnei Manashe (Manasseh)Bnei Manashe (Manasseh)

Beta Abraham

Reuben & Gad

Ephraim & Simeon

“Children of Israel”

NaphtaliAsher

Lemba Community

Issachar & Naphtali

Beta Israel (Dan)

Gefat

Yibir

Igbo

Lost Tribes of Israel

Main Silk Route Connection

Lost Tribes JVMI Works Among

These locations and people groups are not among those JVMI currently ministers to, and information for these people groups has been taken from “The Quest for the Lost Tribes” DVD.

The Silk Route (or Silk Road) was a 4,000-mile-long road system developed for commerce between China and the Middle East. When the Lost Tribes scattered, many of them used the Silk Route to migrate to other destinations.

These locations and people groups have been thoroughly researched by JVMI and are where JVMI takes medical/humanitarian aid and shares the Gospel.

Djerba

Kandahar

HeratKhyber Pass

Mumbai (Bombay)

Manipur

Mizoram

Kaifeng

GondarAddis AbabaWoliso

Hargeisa

Tach Gayint

Hosanna

BuheraGutu

Mberengwa

The Lemba | Southern Africa The Lemba live in Southern African nations including Zimbabwe, South Africa, and other countries. They follow biblical dietary laws, have their own kosher butchers, practice circumcision, observe the Sabbath, and do not inter-marry. New evidence reveals that many Lemba have the Y chromosome frequently found in Jews identified as Cohanim suggesting they have ties to the Levites.

Lost Tribes of Israel served by JVMI:

The Gefat | Woliso & Hosanna, Ethiopia The Gefat Jewish People in Southern Ethiopia strongly identify with Israel and observe biblical commandments given to God’s Chosen People, including circumcising male babies on the eighth day, applying the blood of a sacrificial lamb to their doorposts at Passover, and celebrating the Leviticus 23 feasts. The Gefat are called Fuga by the surrounding people indicating “hated” or “disliked.” Fuga means “blower,” revealing a proud heritage of blowers of the shofar, but is now used as an insult to say, “we wish you would simply blow away.”

The Beta Abraham | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia In the northern part of Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa, the Kechene area is home to the Beta Abraham Jewish community. Many of their ancestors outwardly converted to Christianity under religious persecution, and some Beta Abraham today continue to practice their Jewish traditions in secret.

The Bnei Menashe | Manipur & Mizoram, India The Bnei Menashe are descendants of the tribe of Manasseh residing in two states in northeastern India. Oral tribal histories say they were taken captive by Assyria when Israel was conquered. Some believe they traveled the ancient Silk Route east to central Asia, settled in China, and eventually migrated south to India. Their traditions include songs about the Exodus, wearing prayer shawls that feature a blue thread, and wearing kippahs. Thousands of Bnei Menashe have made aliyah (immigrated) to Israel.

The Lost Tribes of the House of Israel

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Isaiah 11: 12 “He will lift up a banner for the nations, and assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” Jeremiah 23: 8 “ ‘As Adonai lives, who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and from all the lands where He had banished them.’ So they will dwell in their own soil.”

Ezekiel 28: 25 “When I have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered and show my holiness through them in the eyes of the nations, then they will live in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob.” Deuteronomy 30: 3 “... then Adonai your God will bring you back from captivity and have compassion on you, and He will return and gather you from all the peoples where Adonai your God has scattered you.”

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Tach Gayint

Hosanna

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Tach Gayint

Hosanna

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Beta Israel

Bnei Menashe

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The Beta Israel | Gondar & Tach Gayint, Ethiopia In 1975, the Israeli government recognized the Beta Israel of Northern Ethiopia. In 1991, Operation Solomon transported 14,500 of these Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 36 hours of nonstop flights. When the flights discontinued, thousands were left behind and to this day live as outcasts in the Gondar community. Though these groups of Jewish people have lived in Ethiopia for centuries, they are called Falasha, a derogatory term meaning “outcast” or “stranger.”