For the first time since the expulsion of Spain's Jews in 1492, a descendant of forcibly-converted Spanish Jews who immigrated to Israel, returned to Judaism and received rabbinical ordination will return to Spain to serve as a rabbi.

Rabbi Nissan Ben-Avraham, a resident of Shiloh, has been appointed as Shavei Israel’s new emissary to the Bnei Anousim (whom historians refer to as "Marranos") in Spain.