Nof HaGalil Mayor Ronen Plot said his city is ready to welcome the next wave of Indian Jews, known as the Bnei Menashe, after the government approved a plan to reunite families and expand northern Israeli communities.

“Nof HaGalil has the ability to absorb everyone,” Plot told *The Press Service of Israel*. “The largest Bnei Menashe community in Israel lives here, about 1,500 people. They were absorbed in an amazing way—working, participating in the education system, running synagogues. They have become an inseparable part of our landscape, and the absorption was very successful.”

The Bnei Menashe, an ethnic group from northeast India’s Mizoram and Manipur regions, have preserved their Jewish identity over centuries despite isolation. Around 4,000 have already immigrated under previous government efforts, but many families remain divided between Israel and India. Rising ethnic tensions in their home region prompted Jerusalem’s new initiative.