Question
What happened to the 10 tribes of Israelites from Northern Israel after the Assyirian empire disposed of them in other countries?
Answer
Although they call it 10 lost Tribes of the North, they were never all lost. For example, big parts of Shimon (Simon), Levi, Binyamin (Benjamin), and all of Yehuda (Judah) were in the South. Further you can’t really get everyone. People will be away, or will hide, or will find their way back. All tribes are still represented in the Jewish Nation. Will the tribes that were truly lost but remain matrilineally Jewish be returned to us when Moshiach is revealed? Personally I think they will.
Regards, Eliahu Levenson