We don't look Jewish？

Only three days left to serve at Shevet. Today, my daughter and I went grocery shopping. This is probably my fifth. We always work in pairs at Shevet, and first you are paired with an expert to learn how to do things by watching and learning your teacher. This time it was just me and my daughter, and we had no one else to turn to. Even now, we don't speak Hebrew and there are many things we are not sure about, but we have grown in the faith it would somehow work out ok.

We parked the car as usual, took two carts (you put 5 shekels into a cart, take it out, and return it after done, and you get your 5 shekels back), and were about to enter the store only to be stopped by a guard! There is always a guard standing at the store entrance, but when we were paired with a German, American, Dutch and Colombian, we simply walk in without stopping. So this time, when we simply tried to pass by as usual, and the guard asked us (who looked nothing but Asian) to stop. He checked inside our bags and let us in. But this made me think a little...

Jews did not have their own country until 1948, and those who had been scattered all over the world in the Diaspora gradually returned and established Israel. If someone has just returned, they may not be able to speak Hebrew, so people, being jews, are not even expected to be fluent in Hebrew. 20% of Israeli population is Arab also. There are people of all races, including the original Middle Eastern, Caucasian, South American, and South African living here. But are there any Asian Jews? I saw some Asians in Jerusalem (many of them are not Jews probably), in Ashdod I have not even seen any Asians other than us two.

According to Wikipedia, while Jews spread to West Asia and as far as India in the Diaspora, there were relatively few Jewish immigrants that reached in East Asia. However, it does not mean that there are no Jews at all in East Asia. There are some Jews in China, Korea, and Japan. In Japan, there are several hundred families living mainly in Tokyo and Kobe. But I imagine there are an extremely limited number of people, if any, who have been localized as Japanese but have Jewish bloodline.

Well, I felt a bit sad about the little screening we had to go through, but anyway, three days' worth of shopping (about 1,400 shekels = $420) was peacefully finished, and this will be our last.