Sir Isaac Newton and the State of Israel

Sir Isaac Newton is universally recognised as an influential scientist [as well as the co-founder of Calculus], however, his destiny was interwoven with my home town. It was the Earl of Portsmouth who obtained all his papers and journals and they remained a part of his estate for 259 years.Then in 1936, the then Earl of Portsmouth sold all this material to two academics: the economist John Maynard Keynes and the Jewish Oriental Studies scholar Abraham Shalom Yahuda. Keynes donated his share to Cambridge University and Yahuda left his share to the nation of Israel.The question is why would a Penteteuch scholar [Yahuda] be the least bit interested in the works of Isaac Newton? Newton was not only a physicist and mathematician, he was also a bible scholar and creationist.In particular, he held to the view that the Jewish people were destined to return to the Holy Land, which of course they have done so in increasing numbers since the [re]creation of the State of Israel in 1948.