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Palestine: haplogroups

FamilyTreeDNA has 681 kits with a Y-DNA result and 70 kits with mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA). On the paternal line the most common are J1 — 42%, E1b1b-M35 — 19% and J2 — 15%. On the maternal line the most common are H — 21%, J — 11% and X — 6%. YFull has 242 samples for Y from the same area, and its mix of major branches is broadly the same. The largest gap is J2b: 6% on FTDNA against 15% on YFull.

Compare with…
25.3
Y-DNA · kits per 100,000 men
rank 42 of 123 among countries. About 2.7 million men (UN, 2023). A kit's country is the ancestor's homeland, not where the tester lives
1.3
mtDNA · kits per 100,000 people
rank 60 of 93 among countries. About 5.4 million people (UN, 2023)

FTDNA Discover holds about 39 more samples here that are not in the public tree, mostly from academic studies (estimate from the copy of 13 November 2026); this page is built from the public FTDNA tree.

Mitotree, the mt tree of FTDNA Discover, has about 20 more samples from here that the public mt tree lacks: mostly academic studies, GenBank among them (copy of 11 November 2026). This page is built from the public FTDNA tree.

Paternal line · Y-DNA

681 kits · 30 branches
Main branches of the Y tree. Each branch counts every kit in it and in its sub-branches; sub-branches are indented. Age is how many years ago the branch's common ancestor lived (TMRCA).
J
391 · 57.4% 30k years
J1
287 · 42.1% 19k years
P58
215 · 31.6% 9,800 years
L858
199 · 29.2% 4,900 years
FGC11
137 · 20.1% 4,800 years
FGC1707
26 · 3.8% 2,700 years
J2
100 · 14.7% 28k years
J2b
43 · 6.3% 16k years
M205
18 · 2.6% 5,900 years
J2a
42 · 6.2% 20k years
Z2222
26 · 3.8% 16k years
E
144 · 21.1% 52k years
E1b1b-M35
131 · 19.2% 25k years
E-M78
71 · 10.4% 15k years
V22
41 · 6.0% 8,700 years
V12
18 · 2.6% 11k years
E-M123
36 · 5.3% 18k years
M34
24 · 3.5% 15k years
M84
19 · 2.8% 9,500 years
E-M81
13 · 1.9% 4,500 years
T
46 · 6.8% 28k years
P77
30 · 4.4% 5,500 years
R
38 · 5.6% 28k years
R1b-M269
26 · 3.8% 6,500 years
L23
22 · 3.2% 6,400 years
Z2103 (M12149)
17 · 2.5% 5,700 years
CTS7556
12 · 1.8% 5,100 years
G
35 · 5.1% 28k years
G2a
22 · 3.2% 19k years
P303
14 · 2.1% 12k years
other
27 · 4.0%

Among the rest: I 9, A 6, B 5, Q 4, L 3.

Maternal line · mtDNA

70 kits · 13 branches
Main mt-tree branches grouped by letter, sub-branches indented. Each branch counts every kit in it and in its sub-branches. Age is how many years ago the branch's common foremother lived, from FTDNA data where available.
H
15 · 21% 11k years
H14
4 of 70 9,400 years
H4
3 of 70 11k years
J
8 · 11% 35k years
J1c
3 of 70 13k years
J2
3 of 70 30k years
U2'3'4'7'8'9
5 · 7% 50k years
X
4 of 70 29k years
L3'4
3 of 70 80k years
M1a
3 of 70 19k years
W-C194T
3 of 70 12k years
R0a2'3
3 of 70
T2d2
3 of 70 8,500 years
other
23 · 33%

Migration paths of the characteristic branches #

Paths of the region's main characteristic branches, as modelled by FamilyTreeDNA Discover, on one calendar clock: in each year a branch stands where its ancestral line was. Grey is a stretch of path shared by several branches; the large marker is the branch itself.

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The time scale is logarithmic: the closer to the present, the longer a year takes.

The same branches are in the tree on this page.

Palestine: Y-DNA #

Distinctive branches

Branches found here far more often than worldwide: their share is more than 3× the world share. The multiplier is in brackets. Branches of at least 10 kits are included.

  • J-FGC4422: 58 kits · 8.5% (95% confidence interval: 7–11%) (×16.2) 3,100 years
  • J-YSC0000076: 45 kits · 6.6% (95% confidence interval: 5–9%) (×14.6) 4,500 years
  • E-V22 E-V22: 41 kits · 6.0% (95% confidence interval: 4–8%) (×14.3) 8,700 years
  • J-L858 J1-L858: 199 kits · 29.2% (95% confidence interval: 26–33%) (×7.1) 4,900 years
  • T-Z709: 31 kits · 4.6% (95% confidence interval: 3–6%) (×10.5) 8,000 years
  • J-M267 J1: 287 kits · 42.1% (95% confidence interval: 38–46%) (×6.1) 19k years
  • T-CTS931: 43 kits · 6.3% (95% confidence interval: 5–8%) (×8.8) 8,800 years
  • J-FGC1723: 136 kits · 20.0% (95% confidence interval: 17–23%) (×6.4) 3,300 years

Most similar countries

Countries whose mix of major branches looks most like this one. The number is similarity: 100% is the same mix, lower means less in common. Computed only for countries with 100+ kits.

2–12%13–23%24–31%32–49%50–83%Palestineunder 100 kits
All 112 countries and regions by similarity
  1. Jordan 83%
  2. Egypt 82%
  3. Syria 79%
  4. Iraq 78%
  5. Lebanon 74%
  6. Saudi Arabia 70%
  7. Qatar 69%
  8. Bahrain 68%
  9. Kuwait 67%
  10. Yemen 66%
  11. United Arab Emirates 65%
  12. Iran 63%
  13. Sudan 60%
  14. Turkey 58%
  15. Israel 58%
  16. Oman 55%
  17. Greece 54%
  18. Azerbaijan 53%
  19. Armenia 53%
  20. Tunisia 51%
  21. Romania 51%
  22. Algeria 49%
  23. Italy 49%
  24. Libya 48%
  25. Morocco 48%
  26. Italy (Sicily) 47%
  27. Belarus 45%
  28. Ukraine 43%
  29. Hungary 42%
  30. Lithuania 42%
  31. Moldova 41%
  32. Spain 41%
  33. Georgia 40%
  34. Austria 39%
  35. Portugal 39%
  36. Brazil 38%
  37. Russia 38%
  38. Uzbekistan 37%
  39. Bulgaria 37%
  40. Latvia 36%
  41. Poland 35%
  42. Tajikistan 33%
  43. Mexico 32%
  44. Colombia 31%
  45. Slovakia 31%
  46. Dagestan 31%
  47. Somalia 30%
  48. Pakistan 30%
  49. Cuba 30%
  50. Macedonia 29%
  51. Puerto Rico 29%
  52. Germany 28%
  53. Czech Republic 28%
  54. Switzerland 28%
  55. Dominican Republic 28%
  56. France 27%
  57. Afghanistan 27%
  58. Chile 26%
  59. Netherlands 26%
  60. Albania 25%
  61. India 25%
  62. Belgium 24%
  63. Argentina 24%
  64. Kazakhstan 24%
  65. Adygea 24%
  66. Chechnya 23%
  67. Croatia 23%
  68. Serbia 23%
  69. South Africa 21%
  70. United States 20%
  71. Bashkortostan 20%
  72. Peru 19%
  73. United Kingdom 19%
  74. England 19%
  75. Luxembourg 18%
  76. Jamaica 18%
  77. Sri Lanka 18%
  78. Montenegro 17%
  79. Canada 17%
  80. United States (Native American) 16%
  81. Tatarstan 16%
  82. Bosnia and Herzegovina 16%
  83. Wales 15%
  84. Denmark 14%
  85. Australia 14%
  86. Slovenia 14%
  87. Scotland 14%
  88. Ingushetia 13%
  89. Cameroon 13%
  90. Ireland 12%
  91. Chuvashia 12%
  92. Northern Ireland 10%
  93. Nigeria 10%
  94. China 10%
  95. Sweden 10%
  96. Norway 9%
  97. Mordovia 9%
  98. Ghana 8%
  99. Indonesia 8%
  100. Orstkhoy (Aosta Valley in FTDNA) 8%
  101. New Zealand 8%
  102. England (Cornish) 7%
  103. Iceland 7%
  104. Mongolia 7%
  105. Estonia 7%
  106. Philippines 6%
  107. Finland 4%
  108. Japan 4%
  109. Karelia 3%
  110. South Korea 3%
  111. Isle of Man 2%
  112. Vietnam 2%
YFull

The same country on YFull #

The same country at the second company, YFull. Its samples are placed on the FTDNA tree by shared mutations, so the branches are comparable. FTDNA share on the left, YFull on the right, then the difference in percentage points. Republics and other sub-regions are taken out of the country, as at FTDNA. Starred branches are nearly empty at YFull: every test there is whole-genome and reaches the fine branches. Only YFull customers (YF number) are counted, no ancient DNA. YFull data of 2026-11-02. The tree shows only its top three levels.

Y-DNA

681
FTDNA
kits
242
YFull
samples
FTDNAYFull
FTDNA · YFull · Δ
J J-M304
57.4% · 61.2%+3.7
J1 J-M267
42.1% · 38.4%−3.7
P58 J-P58
31.6% · 38.0%+6.4
J2 J-M172
14.7% · 22.7%+8
J2b J-M102
6.3% · 15.3%+9
J2a J-M410
6.2% · 7.4%+1.3
E E-M96
21.1% · 25.6%+4.5
E1b1b-M35 E-M35
19.2% · 24.4%+5.1
E-M78
10.4% · 17.4%+6.9
E-M123
5.3% · 4.1%−1.2
E-M81
1.9% · 2.1%+0.2
T T-M184
6.8% · 0.8%−5.9
P77 T-P77
4.4% · 0.4%−4
R R-M207
5.6% · 3.7%−1.9
R1b-M269 R-M269
3.8% · 2.9%−0.9
L23 R-L23
3.2% · 2.9%−0.3
G G-M201
5.1% · 5.8%+0.6
G2a G-P15
3.2% · 4.5%+1.3
P303 G-P303
2.1% · 2.5%+0.4

mtDNA

YFull has fewer than 30 samples from this country, too few to compare. 28 samples on YFull

The same country on the project maps

In the FTDNA geographic projects a member puts the place of their paternal or maternal ancestor on the map. Here those points are set against the public tree: solid bar the tree, hatched bar the points on the maps, copy of 2026-10-20. A person in several projects counts once. Branches as in the tree above: each counts every kit in it and in its sub-branches.

Y-DNA FTDNA 681 · Projects 163

FTDNAProjects
FTDNA · Projects · Δ
J J-M304
57.4% · 52.8%−4.7
J1 J-M267
42.1% · 35.0%−7.2
P58 J-P58
31.6% · 28.8%−2.7
L858 J-L858
29.2% · 27.6%−1.6
FGC11 J-FGC11
20.1% · 22.1%+2
J2 J-M172
14.7% · 17.8%+3.1
J2b J-M102
6.3% · 9.8%+3.5
J2a J-M410
6.2% · 7.4%+1.2
E E-M96
21.1% · 26.4%+5.2
E1b1b-M35 E-M35
19.2% · 25.2%+5.9
E-M78
10.4% · 17.2%+6.8
V22 E-V22
6.0% · 12.3%+6.2
T T-M184
6.8% · 6.7%0
R R-M207
5.6% · 6.1%+0.6
173
Y-DNA · People on the map
163 of them have a branch of the tree; relatives with one ancestor at one place count as one, 159 such votes
89%
Y-DNA · SNP-confirmed
that many have the branch confirmed by an SNP test, the rest predicted from STRs
86%
agreement with YFull · Y
how closely the Y tree branches match between FTDNA and YFull, each branch counted without its sub-branches. 100% is identical, below 80% is visibly different.
J-M102 +9
gap to YFull · Y
the Y branch whose share differs most between the two companies: FTDNA 6.3%, YFull 15.3%
45% / 26%
reached the finest branch: YFull / FTDNA
share of YFull samples and FTDNA kits that reached the finest branch of the FTDNA tree. On average a YFull sample sits 35.6 branchings from the root, an FTDNA kit 29.3
26%
Y-DNA · on leaves
share of kits that reached the finest branch of the tree. The rest stopped at a broad branch: their test was not detailed enough.
42%
Big Y
rough share of kits with a Big Y test, a full read of the Y chromosome. It is estimated from the branches where the region's kits sit, so it is an estimate, not a count.
30%
mtDNA · on leaves
share of kits that reached the finest branch of the tree. The rest stopped at a broad branch: their test was not detailed enough.

New this month #

FTDNA: how much the kit count grew between the tree copies of 2026-10-09 and 2026-11-12. A kit that moved to a new sub-branch after refinement is not counted as new. YFull: samples YFull itself marks as new, in the copy of 2026-11-02; YFull drops the mark after a few weeks.

+33
Y-DNA, FTDNA
new kits, 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-12
+5
Y-DNA, YFull
new samples as of 2026-11-02
+1
mtDNA, YFull
new samples as of 2026-11-02

Y-DNA: branches that grew

New Y-DNA samples in YFull

New mtDNA samples in YFull

YFull

Regions on YFull #

Regions that cannot be picked at FTDNA but are reported by YFull customers. Regions with 20 or more samples are shown; modern YFull customers only. YFull regions →

Regions on YFull
Country / region Y mt Leading
Nablus PS-NBS 65 8 J-M102 J2b 35%, J-FGC11 J1-FGC11 26%, E-V22 E-V22 22%
Gaza PS-GZA 24 1 J-L858 J1-L858 42%, J-M410 J2a 13%, E-M78 E-M78 13%
Tulkarm PS-TKM 20 5 E-M78 E-M78 45%, J-M205 J2b-M205 25%, J-FGC11 J1-FGC11 15%
Jerusalem PS-JEM 20 1 J-M102 J2b 15%, J-FGC1707 J1-FGC1707 15%, E-M78 E-M78 15%
YFull

Peoples and languages on YFull #

Native language reported by YFull customers from this country. People from regions with a page of their own (republics, autonomies) are shown there. These are the testers' own answers, not a census.

Data on this page: FamilyTreeDNA Y tree, 12 November 2026: 681 kits; FamilyTreeDNA mtDNA tree, 11 November 2026: 70 kits; YFull Y tree, 2 November 2026: 242 samples; YFull mtDNA tree, 2 November 2026: 28 samples.

How to cite: ftdnastat, "Palestine: Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups", https://ftdnastat.github.io/en/c/palestinian-territory/, data of 2026-11-14, build 20261114-18dba71.

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