The Times of Israel, an independent Israeli newspaper that counts among its 
staff a number of former reporters for the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, published a 
fascinating but largely overlooked story datelined Jerusalem and Zhitomir, 
Ukraine, March 16, 2014, and which was written by its respective Russian and 
Ukrainian correspondents, Hirsh Ostropoler and I. Z. Grosser-Spass, citing a 
secret report provided to the Israeli government. The report, written by a 
select panel of scholars of Jewish history drawn from academia and other 
research centers, concluded that that  . .  

. . . . European Jews are in fact descended from Khazars, a war-like 
Mongol-Tatar group that ruled over Ukraine and southern Russia, which 
mass-converted to Judaism in the eighth century AD.

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