Bene Israel also call Shaniwar Teli is the largest & oldest jewish community in india. the Bene Israel lived in the villages of west Maharashtra in the Konkan coast. in now day's  they  are manly lived in the mumbia Mumbai) and to other cities among them Pune, and Ahmadabad in Maharashtra. in Pakistan Karachi.  When Israel is from  on the map of  world they started immigrating to Israel.

    The Bene Israel believe that their forefathers arrived in India before the destruction of the second temple. The accepted version is that their forefathers were sailing in a commercial ship from the Land of Israel to India.  The ship wrecked near the coast of Konkan. From the ship survived 14 people, seven men and seven women.  They swam towards the land and arrived at the village called Navgaon. All their belongings drowned in the sea.  the dead bodies of the others from the ship were buried in the village. In Konkan villages, they adopted Hindu names with surnames usually ending in -kar. The survivors somehow managed to settle in the village and started working in agriculture and oil producing which later on became their main profession.

        They were known in Marathi as shaniwar teli (“Saturday oil pressers”), because they abstained from work on the Jewish Sabbath.
        
         As time passed the descendants of the survivors forgot Hebrew and their religious tradition. But they carried out some of the Israeli Tradition.