[kurupt213]

The best example are the Mizrahi, who never left Palestine.

The Israelites go back to the Bronze Age. They are from a couple of Semitic cities in the Canaanite levant. The same group that spawned phonecians and a bunch of other Mediterranean peoples who colonized much of northern africa and Southern Europe in addition to Anatolia

[panick21_]

I certainty don't deny (as some people do) that there were no Jews anymore in Ottoman Palestine.