Israel right of return

Knesset bill would narrow eligibility for Israel citizenship

The bill would eliminate a clause in the law that extends the right of citizenship to individuals who are not considered Jewish under religious law but have at least one Jewish grandparent.

Avi Maoz, the far-right lawmaker from the Noam party, is the author of a bill meant to align Israel's rules for citizenship with Orthodox standards.
 YOUNG ISRAELIS welcome new immigrants at Ben-Gurion Airport. Most Israelis, whether secular or religious, believe the country must have historical and spiritual continuity, says the writer.

Israel must scrap the Law of Return's 'grandchild clause' - opinion

 AN ECSTATIC Benjamin Netanyahu greets Likud supporters celebrating the election victory last month.

Likud will not agree to change in Israel's Law of Return - report

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Letters to the Editor December 12, 2022: Represent all the people


Israel's Knesset must leave the Law of Return alone - opinion

Excising the Grandchild Clause would signal to hundreds of thousands of Israelis, who are not recognized as Jews, that the Knesset regards them as second-class citizens.

 FINANCE MINISTER Avigdor Liberman speaks to his Yisrael Beytenu faction in the Knesset last week. Before the recent election, Liberman proposed that the right of return be extended to the fourth generation.

Can Israel, Jewish Agency rescue tens of thousands of Russian Jews?

It is unclear how tens of thousands of Russian Jews and those who are eligible to make aliyah according to Israel’s Right of Return will arrive.

 A view shows a sign at the entrance to a Russian branch of the Jewish Agency for Israel, in Moscow, Russia July 21, 2022.

Israeli journalist, activist Arnon Segal to run in Religious Zionist primaries

Arnon Segal, the brother of Israeli journalist Amit Segal, is a journalist and Temple Mount activist.

 Israeli journalist and Religious Zionist primaries candidate Arnon Segal

On This Day: Israel passes Law of Return to grant entry to all Jews, 72 years ago

The Law of Return remains controversial in Israel among those on the Right, who think it lets non-halachic Jews make aliyah, and on the Left, who note a double standard for Arabs and Palestinians.

NEW IMMIGRANTS from North America disembark at Ben-Gurion Airport after a flight arranged by Nefesh B’Nefesh.

Lessons must be learned from the Malka Leifer case

Israel can no longer be a safe-haven by those seeking to use the Right of Return as a shield against criminal proceedings.

Malka Leifer

Cutting UNRWA

But beyond the UNRWA system being abused by terrorists, its written mandate plays a central role in perpetuating the Palestinian refugee myth and the demand for the “right of return.”

UNRWA workers prepare aid parcels at the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk

Dozens protest for Palestinian right of return on Israel's Independence Day

The "Procession of Return" has been taking place since 1998 and was organized by the Association for the Protection of the Rights of the Displaced.

Dozens protest for Palestinian right of return on Israel's Independence Day

‘Let my people come’

All are afforded the right to live here and the protection which comes with that right.

File photo of an EL AL Boeing 777 aircraft at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel July 14, 2015. REUTERS/Nir Elias/File Photo

How it really was: Israel’s first government vs ‘Fiddler on the Roof‘

Jews were in the forefront of modernization.

‘Tevye the Dairyman’ played by Chaim Topol in the popular 1971 film, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit, the minister of police, leaves Tel Mond Prison on November 2, 1949, before pardoning prisoners in a general amnesty

Bennett: Palestinian refugees can’t return en masse to the West Bank

Providing the Palestinians with autonomy, instead of statehood, in the West Bank, would prohibit such an option, says Education minister.

Naftali Bennett