O.K.
Just wanted to make sure. I don’t talk to Muslims - verbally.
The way I understand it, The Jews were from the tribe of Judah, one of the 12 tribes of Israel. Hence all Jews are Hebrews but not all Hebrews were Jews.
Is that right?
No.
Per Jewish belief, all descendants of Jacob are Jews.
But before the destruction of the first Temple (8-9 century BCE) the Jews were split into the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah. Many Jews from ALL the tribes came to the Kingdom of Judah before the Assyrians crushed the Kingdom of Israel . Those from the Kingdom of Judah are the ancestors of the people who are known today as Jews. The dispersed inhabitants of the Kingdom of Israel became what is known as the ten lost tribes.
But today some of these lost tribes are resurfacing.
Support of the survival of tribes besides Judah lies in Megillat Esther where Mordechai is identified as a Jew from the tribe of Benjamin.