Who are the descendants of the 12 Tribes of Israel in this modern time?

Question

Who are the descendants of the 12 Tribes of Israel in this modern time?

Answer 1

now in the modern day they are

    Some part of Egyptians

    Northern Ethiopians

    Some part of Israel

    Syria

    Jordan

    Armenia

    Russia

those are only i guess

Answer 2

Of the purported 12 tribes of Israel/Judah, 10 tribes of the Northern Kingdom were lost to the Assyrians in 720's BCE; the tribes of Reuben, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh, Ephraim, and part of Levi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_...

Although the Southern Kingdom of Judah survived until 586 BCE, and was restored after the Babylonian Captivity,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_...

the Jewish rebellions in the 1st and 2nd centuries ended in the diaspora;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-Roma...

the remaining tribes of Judah, Simeon, Benjamin, and a part of Levi were also lost in the 1800 years of uprooting. Hence modern Judaism does not identify an individual with any one of the 12 tribes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelite

Answer 3

The twelve tribes are a mythical construction and as such just as membership of a tribe was not clearly defined in the ancient era, there are no descendants of any of the tribes around today.

That said, there are groups that claim to descend from one tribe or another. The Jewish surname "Levi" is taken by many to indicate membership of the tribe whose members were the scholars and scribes who assisted the High Priests and Kings of Israel and Judah.

Amongst Jews still, there is a widely held view that all those whose surname is not derived from "Levi" or "Levite" belong to the tribe of Judah.

Finally, many groups (often marginalised and exiled from their homeland) claim to be the twelth "lost" tribe of Israel. The rastafaris, to name but one, adhere to this view.

Answer 4

Arabs and Jews.