These are not the Jews of Biblical times who brought down the walls of Jericho or defended Jerusalem from Sennacherib. And they have a homeland: Eastern Europe.
... it is likely that the ancestry of most contemporary Jews stems mainly from outside the Land of Israel and that a "nation-race" of Jews with a common origin never existed, and that just as most Christians and Muslims are the progeny of converted people, not of the first Christians and Muslims, Jews are also descended from converts. According to Sand, Judaism was originally, like its two cousins, a proselytising religion, and mass conversions to Judaism occurred among the Khazars in the Caucasus, Berber tribes in North Africa, and in the Himyarite Kingdom of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Israel's skin cancer rate is the second highest in the world, due largely to low melatonin levels in the skin of the inhabitants, who have skin tones similar to Swedes and Finns while living in the middle of a desert. This is the only case that exists of a people "indigenous" to a desert being extraordinarily susceptible to skin cancer.
Frank Herbert commented on the make-believe nativity of modern Israelites to the state currently called "Israel" in the Dune series when he created the "Museum Fremen" that existed 1,000 years after Dune was brought under control and who aped the characteristics of the now long-extinct Fremen of antiquity.
