[wardaddy]

I know a family of Yemeni Jews (Israelis) who live on Staten Island....they consider themselves Caucasian....lol..believe me....some of them look sort of Italian or Greek...hardly Negroid unless one believes racial myth fantasies from the flick "True Romance" ...lol

There are very few Negroid Jews that I know of and are most likely the result of intermarriage (someone correct me if they are indig Jews in Ghana or the Congo, please).....The Falashas are a hybrid at most and not terribly similar to West Africans which is what the vernacular "black" usually infers.

Therefore, I doubt there is much chance for what we would consider a "black" Israeli PM...they seem to prefer Ashkenazi ethnic Jews most with Hebrew rather than Germanic-Polish-Russian or Hungarian surnames.

There are also still many Israelis who don't buy the Falasha thing and in fact don't buy that all the Russkies streaming in are real Jews either.

I know a lot of Israelis including those from all 3 main ethnic groups

respectfully.

[nopardons]

Well,there IS that deep in Africa tribe of blacks,with the Cohen DNA,but they aren't moving to Israel. :-)

[missyme]

Was Noah Anglo Saxson?

Was Abraham and Moses Black? I think most of us that are Caucasion have been taught that most if not all Biblical Characters were White..

[Cinnamon Girl]

I didn't say Yemenites were "negroid", but I do think they may have mixed with Africans who are right across the water from them, because some of my friends look like they have African heritage.

And I think Ethiopians aren't represented in the knesset because they are recent immigrants and culturally don't have high visibility like Natan Sharansky, for example. For you to conclude that Israelis would not elect a person with black skin is totally baseless.

Israel is a very young country and has a history of bringing Jews of different colors and cultures from all over the world to live in the land. Is there some reason you want to conclude that Israelis/Jews are racist?