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Not really. Look closer at the tzaraat 'leprosy' where they are performing skin checks regularly looking for irregular and spreading marks:

https://www.thetorah.com/article/tzaraat-as-cancer

You can see there was a white ancestral minority population in ancient Judea given 2 Kings 5:27

Therefore the skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he left his presence diseased, as white as snow.

But when we look at accounts before the captivity, a different picture emerges given Lamentations 4:7

Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, their form cut like sapphire.

In fact, in one of the Dead Sea scrolls (4Q534) it claimed Noah was a redhead.

What's probably going on is a revisionary rewriting of history shortly before the Bible as we know it is finalized. Josiah is allegedly introducing reforms opposing the traditions of Jeroboam (described as the son or grandson of a maternal leper), but the reforms appear anachronistic for Josiah given the communications between Elephantine and Jerusalem a century after his reign that don't reflect them.

We can even see that in between the time the LXX (Greek version) is written and the later Masoretic version that there's been rewriting of history around Jeroboam in 1 Kings 11-14 which has events attributed to him (sometimes doubled up) in the earlier version attributed to others in the later version. As Idan Dershowitz's book on the topic discussed, early Biblical edits may have been literally copy and pasted together, and one of the tells are duplicate stories.

Personally, I think there's something to Hecateus of Adbera's claim that the history of the Jews had recently been edited and changed under Persian and Macedonian rule.

In particular, we're now finding rather extensive evidence of sea peoples settlement and cohabitation around the early Israelites, with the Denyen as actually a great fit for the lost tribe of Dan, and there may well have been an endogamous matrilineal minority population in Judea that persisted throughout the ages.

And in general, you might be surprised at how ancient peoples might have looked in antiquity. Ramses II in his forensic report was described as having pale skin and red hair (not just dyed with henna but at the actual root), like the neighboring Libyan Berbers. Or the indigenous Ganache of an African isle.

We tend to mess up how we think people looked or underappreciate how diverse populations may have been because of anachronistic back projections.

I don’t know. The Kurds are pretty pale and have light colored hair. Thats not too far off.