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Descendants of the local Jewish populations of North Africa and the Middle East
Mizrahi Jews in Israel trace origins to Middle Eastern and North African communities and , with genetics studies showing stronger regional continuity and less European admixture than Ashkenazim . Thes...
Genetic studies show contemporary Jewish communities form distinct but overlapping genetic clusters with substantial shared Middle Eastern ancestry alongside local admixture and population bottlenecks...
The question "are Israeli people indigenous to Israel?" lacks a simple yes/no answer: modern Israelis include groups with varied historical ties to the land, and genetic, historical, and political evi...
Genetic studies show Israeli Jewish populations are neither genetically uniform nor unrelated to neighboring Levantine groups: major analyses find shared Middle Eastern ancestry across Ashkenazi, Seph...
Consumer DNA companies distinguish Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewish ancestry mainly by comparing a tester’s autosomal, Y-chromosome or mitochondrial markers to reference panels drawn from sample...
Mizrahi Jews are broadly defined today as Jews whose families lived for many generations in the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Central and Central‑West Asia rather than in Europe; most migrat...
Since 1948, mass immigration from North Africa, the Middle East, Iran, and Iraq reshaped the demographic and political footprint of Mizrahi Jews in Israel and the diaspora, producing a and creating en...
Mizrahi Jews are defined primarily as Jews whose ancestral origins lie in the Middle East and North Africa, encompassing communities with deep roots in places such as Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, ...