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====African Hebrew Israelites====
{{Main|African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem}}
The African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem is a small religious community whose members believe they are descended from the [[Ten Lost Tribes]] of Israel. Most of the over 5,000 members live in [[Dimona, Israel]] although there are additional, smaller, groups in [[Arad, Israel|Arad]], [[Mitzpe Ramon]], and the [[Tiberias]] area. At least some of them consider themselves to be Jewish, but Israeli authorities do not accept them as such, nor are their religious practices consistent with "mainstream Jewish tradition."<ref>{{cite book|author=Martina Könighofer|title=The New Ship of Zion: Dynamic Diaspora Dimensions of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M-YEcgmaAdAC|year=2008|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=978-3-8258-1055-9|page=12|quote=The African Hebrew Israelites do not practice Judaism according to mainstream Jewish tradition and have not been accepted as Jews by the Israeli authorities.|access-date=1 March 2016|archive-date=28 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928154904/https://books.google.com/books?id=M-YEcgmaAdAC|url-status=live}}</ref> The group, which consists of [[African Americans]] and their descendants, originated in [[Chicago]] in the early 1960s, moved to [[Liberia]] for a few years, and then immigrated to Israel.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}