what is the most common jewish phenotype

[Bobby Martnen]

In Israel most Ashkenazim have brown/hazel eyes and brown hair. some look south greek or levantine. only few have blonde hair.

A lot of them are probably mixed with Sephardic or Mizrahic Jews. His original hair color is dark brown

[Sp_loa]

A lot of them are probably mixed with Sephardic or Mizrahic Jews. His original hair color is dark brown

Some of my "pure" Ashkenazi friends/teachers could fit right into syria-greece.

I really don't know why people assume that Ashkenazi suppose to be light and sephardi and Mizrahi suppose to be dark...

I mean ofcourse many are dark but not everyone. I'm full sephardi, maternal grandfather family are all blonde/red haired with blue/green/brown eyes and my paternal grandfather family are all white as snow,very tall with the lightest blue eyes you could ever imagine. And believe me I'm not the only sephardic with blue eyes or with blonde relatives. I won't deny that ashkenazi are usually lighter, they mixed with north-central europeans while my ancestors mixed with southern europeans and amazighs but I find it really annoying when people ask me or my friend (who is 75% sephardi and 25% yemenite with light skin and the lightest green eyes) why are we white if we aren't ashkenazi.

p.s I also know Mizrahi jews from caucasus with red hair and green eyes... but in their case most mizrahim are dark that's true (especially persian and kurdish jews)

[MysteriousWays]

Some of my "pure" Ashkenazi friends/teachers could fit right into syria-greece.

I really don't know why people assume that Ashkenazi suppose to be light and sephardi and Mizrahi suppose to be dark...

I mean ofcourse many are dark but not everyone. I'm full sephardi, maternal grandfather family are all blonde/red haired with blue/green/brown eyes and my paternal grandfather family are all white as snow,very tall with the lightest blue eyes you could ever imagine. And believe me I'm not the only sephardic with blue eyes or with blonde relatives. I won't deny that ashkenazi are usually lighter, they mixed with north-central europeans while my ancestors mixed with southern europeans and amazighs but I find it really annoying when people ask me or my friend (who is 75% sephardi and 25% yemenite with light skin and the lightest green eyes) why are we white if we aren't ashkenazi.

p.s I also know Mizrahi jews from caucasus with red hair and green eyes... but in their case most mizrahim are dark that's true (especially persian and kurdish jews)

This...There is more overlap in terms of pigmentation among Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic, and Mizrahi than one would think from things such as genetic distance.

[aherne]

I work with Israelis and I can tell you most look Middle Eastern (which is what one would expect considering their ethnicity). Even those that came from Europe have a significant minority that looks Semitic/"Arabid". Their closest kin are the Palestinians, pure and simple...

[Odin]

Armenoid.

[TheOldNorth]

Jews come in all phenotypes; to put it simply it depends on which country they're from and there does appear to be some correlation. Many Russian Jews look very nordid, having a propensity for blue eyes, whilst many Polish Jews were very semitic in their appearance, so it does depend

funny you say that considering my lithuanian-jewish great grandmother I believe had blue eyes, I know that she had lighter hair when she was younger, as that's something my dad told me, but I'm pretty sure she had light eyes as well, on the other hand my half bulgarian jewish, half moroccon jewish (spanish jewish in exile) great grandfather who she married was often mistaken for an arab or thought to be mixed with east african even, though the genetic evidence doesn't support that, likely exaggerations because most americans back then weren't used to seeing Semitic peoples

[TheOldNorth]

Some of my "pure" Ashkenazi friends/teachers could fit right into syria-greece.

I really don't know why people assume that Ashkenazi suppose to be light and sephardi and Mizrahi suppose to be dark...

I mean ofcourse many are dark but not everyone. I'm full sephardi, maternal grandfather family are all blonde/red haired with blue/green/brown eyes and my paternal grandfather family are all white as snow,very tall with the lightest blue eyes you could ever imagine. And believe me I'm not the only sephardic with blue eyes or with blonde relatives. I won't deny that ashkenazi are usually lighter, they mixed with north-central europeans while my ancestors mixed with southern europeans and amazighs but I find it really annoying when people ask me or my friend (who is 75% sephardi and 25% yemenite with light skin and the lightest green eyes) why are we white if we aren't ashkenazi.

p.s I also know Mizrahi jews from caucasus with red hair and green eyes... but in their case most mizrahim are dark that's true (especially persian and kurdish jews)

I've heard rumors and theories that the light features are from Galatian mercenaries hired by the later kings of Judea and Israel who likely bore children with native women

[JamesBond007]

Armenoid.

Armenoid, even the light featured Jews like Mark Zuckerberg and Barbara Streisand have underlying Armenoid features.