Israeli citizenship

Israel’s Supreme Court blocks automatic citizenship for non-Jewish children of immigrants

The 6-1 decision by the Supreme Court overturns a precedent set only months earlier, and restores the Interior Ministry’s longstanding interpretation of the law.

Supreme Court justices preside over a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025
 RELEASED HOSTAGE Edan Alexander embraces his father as he reunites with his family.

I still trust my Israeli passport because I have faith in the Israeli people - opinion

 Plane flying over Tehran airport.

Fear in the sky: How to avoid flying over enemy territory, what to do if you land there

A tag is seen with images of Yarden, Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas

'Unspeakably evil': Kfir, Ariel Bibas were brutally murdered in Gaza captivity, not by IAF strike


Easing adjustment to Israel: One immigrant helping others

When Lara Itzhaki helped her brother plan his aliyah, she had no idea she’d be kick-starting a business plan to help new immigrants

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Israeli identity and the anti-‘freier’

If an American Jew strives to be a mensch, then an Israeli Jew seeks to be an “anti-freier.”

AN ANTI-FREIER is likewise a hard person who pursues his goals aggressively.

Government strips 2,600 Beduin of citizenship due to 'registration error'

The punitive retroactive measure has effectively left them stateless in a country where most were born in subsequent generations.

A man carries hay to feed livestock in the Beduin village of Bir Mshash in Israel's southern Negev December 10, 2013.

Israeli court rules to revoke citizenship of convicted terrorist

Judge said Arab attacker who injured four people abused his citizenship rights and thus excluded himself from society.

Stabbing in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel

Gueule de bois messianique

Plusieurs fois menacé depuis la guerre des Six Jours, le consensus national, alimenté par le pragmatisme des Israéliens, l’a toujours emporté

 2005. Militants contre le désengagement  de Gaza

Pass the Jewish nation-state law

The “Jewish” side of the formulation “a Jewish and democratic state” is under internal assault as well.

‘TODAY THE State of Israel’s identification with Jewish nationhood is under attack from all sides.’

I am an Israeli Citizen.

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The Fire Next Time

The Jerusalem Post

Sharp drop in granting of citizenship to Jerusalem's Arabs

Over the past decade, 2,641 of the 7,168 applications were approved, for an acceptance rate of 36.8 percent. By contrast, in 2015 the acceptance rate was 2.9 percent.

Damascus Gate and Salah Al-Din Road in East Jerusalem

Two arrested in murder of missing Israeli found in forest in Hungary

He had last contacted his family Thursday before disappearing.

Missing Israeli Ofir Gross.