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Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]) or Jewish people are an
ethnoreligious group and a nation originating from the Israelites and
Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood,
and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the ethnic
religion of the Jewish people, while its observance varies from strict
observance to complete nonobservance.Jews originated as an ethnic and
religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE,
in the part of the Levant known as the Land of Israel. The Merneptah
Stele appears to confirm the existence of a people of Israel somewhere
in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE (Late Bronze Age). The
Israelites, as an outgrowth of the Canaanite population, consolidated
their hold with the emergence of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Some consider that these Canaanite sedentary Israelites melded with
incoming nomadic groups known as 'Hebrews'. Though few sources mention
the exilic periods in detail,[failed verification] the experience of
diaspora life, from the Babylonian captivity and exile to the Roman
occupation and exile, and the historical relations between Jews and
their homeland thereafter, became a major feature of Jewish history,
identity and memory.[27]In the millennia following, Jewish diaspora
communities coalesced into major distinct ethnic groups: Ashkenazim
(European Jews), and Sephardim (Iberian Jews); furthermore, Mizrahim
(Oriental Jews) are oftenâ€"particularly in Israelâ€"regarded as
separate from Sephardim.[28] Prior to World War II, the worldwide
Jewish population reached a peak of 16.7 million,[29] representing
around 0.7 percent of the world population at that time. Approximately
6 million Jews were systematically murdered during the
Holocaust.[30][31] Since then the population has slowly risen again,
and as of 2018[update] was estimated at 14.6â€"17.8 million by the
Berman Jewish DataBank, less than 0.2 percent of the total world
population.[32][note 1] Jews Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter