- DOUBLE HONORS TO THE ELDERS!
Ben Ammi ben-Israel; a former Chicago metal worker who led a migration(Exodus) of hundreds of fellow black Americans to what they knew as their ancestral homeland, Israel, Dec. 27, 2014 on Saturday in a hospital in Be'ersheba, Israel. He was 75.

As years passed and more followers made their way to the African Hebrew compound in Dimona, overstaying tourist visas. Tensions flared anew on April 17, 1986, (scene recorded above)when the police surrounded the village to prevent a planned protest march. Mr. Ben-Israel made an impassioned proclamation of strength to his followers but without the inflammatory talk of earlier years, and they did not push ahead with the march.