Ahmadiyya in Israel

The Ahmadiyya in Israel (Hebrew: אחמדים בישראל; Arabic: أحمدية في إسرائيل) is a small community established in the region in the 1920s in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine.

[4] The history of the Ahmadiyya community in Israel begins with a tour of the Middle East in 1924 made by the second caliph of the movement, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, and a number of missionaries.

The first converts to the movement belonged to the Odeh tribe on Mount Carmel, which originated from Ni'lin, a small village near Jerusalem.

The community includes a small number of Palestinian converts to Ahmadiyya Islam, who sought shelter in Haifa after they were excommunicated by their larger families in the West Bank.

[6] Multiple politicians have visited the local community, including the then-president of Israel, Shimon Peres, on invitation for an Iftar dinner during the month of Ramadhan.