Where are the Jews distributed?

According to the statistics of Jewish organizations, in 2007, the total number of Jews in the world was about160,000, of which 5.4 million settled in Israel, 5.3 million lived in the United States, and the rest were scattered around the world. Israel is the only country in the world with Jews as its main ethnic group.

There are usually two kinds of Jews. Broadly speaking, according to the definition of halaka in Jewish law, all people who convert to Judaism (religious significance) and those born to Jewish mothers (national significance) belong to Jews.

Jews originated from Hebrew in Israel or West Asia. In a narrow sense, it should be traced back to history in the category of "race".

Ethnic origin

The ancient Hebrews belonged to the Semitic tribe. They wandered in the grasslands of the Euphrates River valley in the 3rd century BC/KLOC-0, and entered Canaan, which was later called Palestine, in the middle of the 2nd century BC/KLOC-0. At that time, Canaanites called foreigners "Hebrews", meaning "people on the other side of the river" ("River" refers to the Euphrates River).

According to the historical records of the Old Testament, their distant ancestor Abraham (pronounced Ibrahim in Arabic) first lived near the Ur Empire of Sumerians, and later moved to Canaan (now Israel/Palestine).

He had two sons, and the youngest son Isaac became the ancestor of the Jews. According to the Bible and the Koran, the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's eldest son, and Hagar, the maid, are Arabs. So Jews and Arabs are very close in primitive blood.