@shortstories and they were never in egypt
"There is no difference in "Paleo-Hebrew" vs. "Phoenician" letter shapes. The names are applied depending on the language of the inscription"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet
"Phoenician was written horizontally, from right to left.[3] It developed directly from the Proto-Sinaitic script[4][3] used during the Late Bronze Age, which was derived in turn from Egyptian hieroglyphs.[5][6]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
Phonecian and Paleo-Hebrew use the same font to represent different languages
So there is potential linguistic evidence that the Palestinian true Hebrew Israelites lived in Egypt and got their alphabet there
@Stahesh
Paleo Hebrew came from a parent system of Egyptian Hieroglyphs according to the chart of wikipedia but it is not mentioned how in the article
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet
The Palestinian Israelites might have had ancestors who lived in Egypt but those would not have been the primary ancestors of the Ashkenazi so called Jews