1. After several weeks of back-and-forth, Menashe emailed Harmel to say that, regretfully, the deal was off.

2. Menashe Har-el in his book This Is Jerusalem, “was accepted . . . by the United Nations with the Partition Resolution of November 1947.

3. Hundreds of Indian Jews flew into Ben-Gurion Airport to make Aliyah this week, as Israeli ministers promised to help the rest of the Bnei Menashe community emigrate shortly.