Study on non-Jews in Latin America finds a quarter with Jewish ancestry
Some 23 percent of the 6,589 people sampled showed some genes — or more than 5 percent of their ancestry — associated with Sephardic, East Mediterranean or South Mediterranean ancestry,
Michal Levy with her 3 children and IFCJ coordinator for aliya from Latin America Debbie Ashkenazi (right) at Ben Gurion Airport on July 26, 2017(photo credit: IFCJ)ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA