More than 1,000 U.S. Christian pastors and influencers traveled to Israel this month becoming “the largest group of American Christian leaders to visit Israel since its founding.”
At the height of the Christmas season — one of the two most important celebrations for Christians of the year, the birth of Christ, the other being Easter which marks his death — these pastors were on mission paid for by the Israeli government “to provide training and prepare participants to serve as unofficial ambassadors for Israel in their communities,” Fox News reported.
Trip organizer Mike Evans is an author, a top evangelical ally of Donald Trump, longtime confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and founder of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center in Jerusalem. “For Christians, Israel is not just another country on the map. It is the cradle of our faith. The story of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, King David, and Jesus starts here. If you cut Israel out of the Bible, you do not just edit a text, you undermine the foundations of Christian faith itself," the long-time, prominent Christian Zionist said in a press release about the trip.
That’s kinda complex since there were multiple Hebrew/Jewish/Abrahamic kingdoms and polities in the region at the time and not all of them are recorded particularly well. There were two major kingdoms roughly set where Israel and Palestine are now, the kingdom of Israel/Jerusalem (it got turned into a city state a couple times) and the kingdom of Judea, then there was the kingdom of the Philistines, and then in the north you get a weird mix of city states and minor kingdoms.
This is all to say that no it is not, even a fully unified Hebrew state at the time would possibly be smaller than modern Israel. The modern boarders of Israel match up better with the medieval Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem. Also kinda irrelevant the Palestinians are the peoples of the region who stayed rather than being exiled after the Romans put down the Jewish rebellion, they homogenized and mixed together over about two thousand years before the modern period.