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

 Letters

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


5 facts to know about the Palestinian 'Nakba Day'

Here are five facts about the annual commemoration by Palestinians of the 'catastrophe' of the establishment of the State of Israel.

Nakba Day facts

Battle over Balfour Declaration heats up... 99 years after it was issued

"There was already a Jewish majority in Jerusalem in the mid-19th century, well before the Balfour Declaration."

Lord Arthur James Balfour and the text of the Balfour Declaration

French woman’s aliya dream thwarted by mother’s baptism

Nadine Franz shocked to find mother was baptized; she identifies as a Jew.

NADINE FRANZ

JPost Editorial: Speaking for history

Historians, Jewish or otherwise, should be able to understand Zionism as the national liberation movement of the Jewish people and stop denying Israel’s right to exist.

Participants attend a rally commemorating the Nakba

'We were wrong,' rightist NGO Im Tirzu says in Facebook post

"Dear Friends, we were wrong," the opening sentence to the post begins. "We published something erroneous on a important and essential subject."

Amos Oz and Gila Almagor

UN approves Palestinian rights NGO that Israel says is linked to Hamas

In the UN vote, 16 countries voted against a resolution that aimed to prevent the London-based Palestinian Return Center from being recognized.

Palestinian students supporting Hamas demonstrate in the West Bank city of Hebron