Jewish scholar Yaakov Wise, a research fellow at the University of Manchester Centre of Jewish Studies, has suggested that Conservative leader David Cameron could be a direct descendant of Moses, The Times reports.

Cameron’s paternal great-great-grandfather was a Jewish immigrant who became a successful businessman. But Dr Wise has traced the politician’s ancestry back to Elijah Levita, an eminent 16th-century Jewish scholar. His study of archival material also suggests that Cameron, who has described himself as an “enthusiastic friend of the Jewish people”, could be a direct descendant of Moses, according to the report.

Cameron’s great-great-grandfather, Emile Levita, arrived in Britain from Germany in the 1850s and rose swiftly in the world of commerce, gaining citizenship in 1871 and becoming director of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, based in London.

Elijah Levita, 1469-1549, was a central figure in the “Christian Hebraist” movement, who pioneered Hebrew and Yiddish linguistic research at the time of the Tudors.

“It is possible that Cameron is a direct descendant of Moses or, at least, a cousin. The leader of the Levites at the time of the exodus from Egypt was Moses, who was married with two sons named in the Bible,” Dr Wise said, according to the newspaper. “However, later descendants are unknown and many of today’s Levites, often carrying the surnames Levy, Levitan or Levita, could in fact be his descendants.”

(Hat tip to @torybear.)

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