Chief Ephraim Israel is a member of the Black Hebrew Israelites and is based in Brooklyn, New York. ^[1]

He is of Puerto Rican heritage and works as a porter. Israel has been a member of the House of Israel since his teens. ^[1]

In January 2019, in an interview with The New York Post, Israel stated he caused the controversial face-off outside the Lincoln Memorial by viciously berating a group of Covington Catholic High School. ^[1]

Israel was caught on video verbally attacking both Native American activists and the students from Covington Catholic High School for more than an hour on Friday January 18, 2019, before activist Nathan Phillips appeared and began chanting and beating on a drum. ^[1]

A clip of Phillips standing with Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, who smiled silently as his schoolmates mockingly chanted along with Phillips, later went viral on social media and sparked national outrage at the students' conduct. ^[1]

Israel defended the insults he hurled at the students, whom he at one point called a bunch of f—-ts made out of incest. ^[1]