African King Wants His Nation Recognized as Jewish – (From Israel Today) King Ayi of the West African nation of Togo arrived in Israel on Sunday with an unusual request – he wants the Jewish state to officially recognize his people as a lost tribe of Israel. Jewish Religious Affairs Minister David Azulai, who told the African ruler that Israel’s Chief Rabbinate will have to investigate his claims to being descended from Israel. In an interview with the Orthodox Israeli news portal Kikar Hashabbat, King Ayi explained that “a nation that doesn’t recognize God and has no religion is a nation that doesn’t know where it is going. I can tell you that as a professor of religion,” he said, “there is no religion as close to my heart as Judaism.” Asked how he discovered his own Jewish heritage, King Ayi said that “our teachers in Togo taught us that we are Jews. Before Togo became a republic, it was a kingdom known as ‘the Jewish Kingdom of West Africa.’ Our founding fathers came from Israel over 2,000 years ago. In the Last Days, all Jews in the world will be discovered, and people from afar will return…”[i]
[i] African King Wants His Nation Recognized as Jewish, Israel Today, May17, 2016
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