Hate to be pedantic, but some were of the tribes of Israel and some were of the tribe of Judah (Jew). It's an important distinction to make because the prophets said God would make a new covenant with the house of israel and the house of Judah, and the fulfillment of that prophecy just prior to the cross gets lost to people susceptible to the dispensational delusion who only think in terms of Jews, and consequently they project the fulfillment of that prophecy into the future
Not pedantic at all. Hebrew would have been more accurate.