A scholar actually wrote a book about what Jesus looked like. I haven't picked it up yet, but I have heard good things about it. Might be worth checking out if you're curious. Looks like she wrote an article for the BBC a few years before the book was published. She says an image of Moses in Dura-Europos (picture at bottom of article) is probably the closest to what Jesus looked like. The skin tone in that image looks similar to the reconstruction that the person you are replying to linked.
>With the Jewish population of the middle east you especially have the
problem of the fairly high numbers of European and Iranian Jews who've
moved in
Wait, what do you mean "moved in?" Are you talking about moving in to Israel?