Contemporary Outreach
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Outreach to Nigerian Jews by the wider Jewish world community gained official status in 1995–97, when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sent a team to Nigeria in search of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Western rabbis and educators such as Rabbi Howard Gorin have visited the community at times and Jewish communities in the West support those in Nigeria by sending books, computers, and religious articles. However, the State of Israel has not officially recognized the Igbo as one of the Lost Tribes.
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