Who was the first to live on land that Israel now sits right Israel?

The first inhabitants of the land that is now Israel were the Canaanites, who arrived in the region in the 3rd millennium BCE. The Canaanites were a Semitic people who spoke a language closely related to Hebrew. They established a number of city-states along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and in the Jordan River Valley. The Canaanites were conquered by the Israelites in the 12th century BCE.