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The Hebrew Israelites, as the spiritual community’s members are commonly known, first made their way to Israel from the United States in the 1960s. While members do not consider themselves Jewish, they claim an ancestral connection to Israel.

The Hebrew Israelites believe they are descendants of the biblical tribes of Israel who, after the Roman conquest in 70 A.D., fled down the Nile and west into the African interior and were ultimately taken as slaves to North America centuries later.

They observe an interpretation of biblical laws formulated by their late founder that includes strict veganism, abstention from tobacco and hard alcohol, fasting on the Sabbath, polygamy, and a ban on wearing synthetic fabrics.

In 2015, about 130 of them without documentation submitted requests for residency rights, claiming that authorities had reneged on earlier promises to legalize their status.

The Interior Ministry rejected the requests in 2021 and issued deportation orders to 49 people. Four left the country, while the remaining 45 appealed. The rest remain in legal limbo.

Ed. Corrected. 2nd Par. was duplicate, is now replaced.

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Are these the same Israelites as in the Desmond Dekker song?

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the same Israelites as in the Desmond Dekker song?

Needed to checkout the song, I suppose you mean " Israelites "?
I saw it was by Rastafarian singers. So there’s definitely a connection.

Whether they are the same people is an important question; they seem to consider themselves part of the 12 tribes it seems.

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That’s the one, people mishear it as ‘my ears are alight’ :)

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