African Americans in Israel

[4] In addition, there as a large community of Black Hebrew Israelites numbering at least 5,000 people, who originally immigrated to Israel from Chicago in the 1960s, and live mostly in the southern Israeli town of Dimona.

Notable African American Jews who moved to Israel include Nissim Black, Amar'e Stoudmire, Nikia Browne, From Kohav Nolad season 8 and others.

[6] A number of African American pro athletes have moved to Israel to play for local Israeli sports teams.

In his early twenties Carter was given the name Ben Ammi by Rabbi Reuben of the Chicago Congregation of Ethiopian Hebrews.

[10] According to Ben Ammi, in 1966, at the age of 27, he had a vision in which the Archangel Gabriel[11] called him to take his people, African Americans, back to the Holy Land of Israel.

African American-Israeli basketball player Shawn Dawson, son of American-born Israeli Joe Dawson and his Yemenite Jewish wife
African American-Israeli sprinter Donald Sanford represented Israel at the 2016 Olympics .
Jamie Arnold, a retired African American-Israeli basketball player with dual citizenship who played for the Israeli national basketball team
African American-Israeli sprinter Donald Sanford representing Israel
Israeli basketball player Shawn Dawson
D'or Fischer, an African American-Israeli professional basketball player with dual citizenship who has represented Israel on their national team