Groups claiming affiliation with Israelites
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title:
Groups claiming affiliation with Israelites
text:
Several groups of people have claimed lineal descent from the Israelites, an ancient Semitic-speaking people who inhabited Canaan during the Iron Age. The phenomenon has become especially prevalent since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. The country's Law of Return, which defines Jewishness for the purpose of aliyah, prompted many individuals to claim Israelite ancestry with the expectation that it would make them eligible for Israeli citizenship through their perceived Jewish ethnici
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Non-Jewish/Samaritan claimants of Israelite descent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groups_claiming_affiliation_with_Israelites
date created:
2005-09-28T18:47:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T09:51:18Z
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