The World - News from April 20, 1986
The Israeli government is taking steps to expel 49 members of the Black Hebrews sect arrested last week in a suburb of Tel Aviv, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. The daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot, which first reported the arrests, said the Interior Ministry charged that the sect members do not have the proper work permits to legally stay in Israel. The Black Hebrews came to Israel from the United States and claimed to be descendants of biblical Israelites, but the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that they are not Jews and not eligible for automatic citizenship.
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