The World - News from Feb. 4, 1987

An Israeli parliamentary committee has called for the expulsion of the U.S.-founded Black Hebrew sect, whose 1,500 members say they are ancestors of the biblical Israelites, legislative sources said. Parliament’s Interior Committee made the recommendation to acting Interior Minister Roni Milo, the sources said. According to Israeli law, he has three months to order the sect expelled or explain why he has not done so. The committee said the Black Hebrews, who began arriving from American cities in the 1960s, are living in Israel illegally. It asked the government to enforce immigration laws calling for expulsion in such cases. More than 40 members of the sect were deported last year.