the genetic evidence I’ve seen from israel is that they are a mix of whole bunch of different people. further Abraham’s father was from Ur. They were refugees from the sumerian empire which was collapsing during the period in which they left. The sumerians of Ur were not a semetic people. (Just to the north the people of Akkad—were a semetic people.)
The marsh arabs of today build houses exactly like those depicted in ancient sumerian drawing but their genetics have long since become mixed up with other peoples in the area.
The jews like the christians are not a genetic line but rather a faith. As in the righteous shall live by faith.
You want to please God, do stuff that requires you to live by faith and trust in God.
There is no one more hopeless than an atheist with a guaranteed high paying pension, or an atheist tenured professor, or an atheist government official whose only job requirement is to keep is to keep in good odor with his bosses. Yet these dominate our culture.
The most likely explanation is that the Ten Lost Tribes no longer exist. The Assyrians deported the elite and urban populations that were still alive after invasion (27,290 according to Assyrian cuneiform records), and moved in a new ruling population from other lands that they had conquered. As time passed, the deported Israelis were too few to maintain their identity and were absorbed throughout Assyria. The bulk of the Israeli population stayed behind as farmers, peasants, herdsmen, etc, and their DNA is still present in the Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese populations.