The color of the eyes is an important racial trait. The various colors are due to the amount of pigmentation, and can be reduced to three; viz., fair (blue, gray), dark (black, brown), and intermediate (green, yellow, etc.).

Sep 21, 2022 · A new Pew Research Center survey finds that nearly all Israeli Jews self-identify with one of four subgroups: Haredi (“ultra-Orthodox”), Dati (“religious”), Masorti (“traditional”) and Hiloni (“secular”).

Aug 20, 2018 · Blue-eyed, fair-skinned settlers inhabited the Levant some 6,500 years ago, according to an international interdisciplinary team of scientists. An article released Monday in the peer-reviewed...

The majority of the world’s population has brown eyes, about 70-80%. Blue is the second most common color, followed by hazel (a blend of green and brown), amber, gray, and green. A small numer of people have eyes of an even rarer color, such as violet or red, or display heterochromia, a condition in which a person’s eyes are two different ...

Jan 11, 2017 · Taking all our sources together – biblical, mishnaic and epigraphic in addition to Semitic parallels, we can explain Jacob’s positive blessing to Judah as having: “Eyes deeper in color than dark wine; teeth whiter than milk.”

The least common eye color on the planet is gray, with less than 1% of the world claiming gray eyes. Those who can, however, are more commonly going to be found in parts of Eastern and Northern Europe.

These include having a light to fair complexion, blue or green eyes, and dark hair. Other physical traits that have been observed in Ashkenazi Jews include a high incidence of diseases such as Tay-Sachs, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer.

In fact, according to a British study by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Crusaders’ genetic in the region was short lived. Basically, all this shows that light eyes (blue, green, grey) were all known and while less common, hardly that unusual in the Levant.

Aug 21, 2018 · An international team of researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Harvard University have discovered that waves of migration from Anatolia and the Zagros ...

Of 75,377 Jewish children examined, only 46.83 per cent were brunettes having both dark hair and dark eyes; 11.17 per cent were blonds having light hair and light-colored eyes; and 42 per cent were of the mixed type having either dark hair with fair eyes, or vice versa.