The Bene Israel people are derived from 14 Jewish survivors of a shipwreck on India’s Konkan coast, according to their oral tradition.
New York, NY: According to a study, genetic testing has proven what the Bene Israel group in western India has traditionally claimed – that they had Jewish ancestry.
“Almost nothing is known about the Bene Israel society before the 18th century, when it was first seen by Cochin Jews and later Christian missionaries,” stated study first author Yedael Waldman of Tel Aviv University in Israel.