Tel Aviv, June 17 -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel plans to bring the entire Bnei Menashe community from northeastern India to Israel within four years while speaking at an event for recent Indian Jewish immigrants.

"After years of strengthening the bond between Israel and India, thanks to the warm relationship with my friend Narendra Modi, I am thrilled to see the Bnei Menashe returning home. We are going to bring the entire community to Israel over the next four years," Netanyahu said, speaking to Bnei Menashe who recently settled in the Galilee town of Nof HaGalil. "You are an inseparable part of the Jewish People, and Israel is your home."

About 600 members of the community have arrived since the be...