Some of these habiru were enslaved and forced to work on the new capital of Pharaoh Ramesses II around 1250 BCE, but they escaped and made their way to Canaan. There, they settled down as sheepherders and farmers in isolated hill-country villages, accepting the name habiru for themselves, which eventually metamorphosed into the name they have been known by ever since: Hebrews.
The hebrews were immigrants
