Are there Jews in Africa

Answer 1

Judea (or Judaea) represented the historical southern kingdom in Israel that included Jerusalem. Israel including its neighboring counties in the Middle East are part of the continent of Asia.

Additionally

You can think of ancient Judaea as modern "Palestine," today.

Answer 2

This was totaly lifted from wikipedia (For the whole article go to Links below)

Since Biblical times, the Jewish people have had close ties with Africa, beginning with Abraham's sojourns in Egypt, and later the Israelite captivity under the Pharaohs. Some Jewish communities in Africa are among the oldest in the world, dating back more than 2700 years. African Jews have ethnic and religious diversity and richness. African Jewish communities include: * Scattered African groups who have not maintained contact with the wider Jewish community from ancient times, but who assert descent from ancient Israel or other connections to Judaism. These include: ** Groups who observe Jewish rituals, or rituals bearing recognizable resemblance to Judaism. Although there are a number of such groups, the majority of world Jewry recognize only the Beta Israel of Ethiopia as historically Jewish. ** Groups such as the the Lemba, most of whom practice Christianity), but who have preserved some rituals and customs believed to be Jewish in origin. This group has also been found to have genetic traits that other Jewish population group s possess, thereby bolstering their claims to Jewish ancestry. * Sephardi Jews and Mizraḥi Jews living in North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt. The vast majority of them have emigrated, chiefly to Israel and France, with substantial numbers also emigrating to Brazil, Canada and the USA. Small but active communities remain in Morocco and Tunisia. * The South African Jews, who are mostly Ashkenazi Jews, descended mostly from pre-and post-Holocaust immigrant Lithuanian Jews. Although not all African Jews are religious, most of the practices found in African Jewish communities are Orthodox.

Answer 3

Answer

No, Israel is in Asia.

Small Exception

There was a period during the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 (also known as the Yom Kippur War, the Ramadan War, and the October War) when Israel controlled a small bit of territory west of the Suez Canal and therefore had a toe in Africa. However, the Armistice that resolved that conflict (a week later) pushed Israeli control back to the eastern (Asian) side of the Suez Canal. Israel has never been part of Africa in any substantial way and in no other way than as described in this note.

Answer 4

Jerusalem is all in the Middle East, which is part of Asia.

Africa is normally assumed to start with the West bank of the Suez Canal, the Bitter Lakes on the canal route and the west shore of the Red Sea.