Haredi parties negotiating with Likud on the tactics of the next coalition government have to abandon adjustments to the grandson’s clause in the Law of Return, despite their past demands to remove it, Reshet Bet radio reported Monday morning. The same is probably true for devout Zionism, which has also pledged to eliminate the same clause.
In my pre-election interview with devout Zionist parliamentarian Simcha Rothguy (Meet Zionist Devotee Simcha Rothguy, Ben Gvir’s moderate ally), he said, “First, we need to remove the grandson clause. The Law of Return deserves to bring the Jews to Israel. But today, the Law of Return has an option for someone whose grandfather was Jewish. We say that the fact that the grandson of a Jew has the same prestige as a halachic Jew has created a scenario in which guyy from whom to discharge Israeli citizenship are not Jews, do not describe themselves as Jews and, at best, do not even need to be Jews. This is a mistake.
The Likud team tried to convince its right-wing coalition partners that it would be smarter to create a committee to talk about this factor and formulate its conclusions for the next coalition period, but refused to include in the coalition agreement any passages promising to replace the grandfather clause. cancel it or even the proposed committee.
In this context, you all know what a camel is, don’t you?A camel is a horse designed through a committee (the adage coined in 1959 by Sir Alec Issigonis, the designer of the original Mini).
The 1950 Law of Return granted other people with one or more Jewish grandparents and their non-Jewish spouses the right to settle in Israel and obtain Israeli citizenship. The law was amended in 1970 to extend the right of access and agreement to users with at least one Jewish grandparent and one user married to a Jew, whether or not they are considered Jewish under Orthodox interpretations of Jewish law.
Haredim and devout Zionism sought to amend the law again, removing a Jewish grandfather’s point and restricting it to the offspring of a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father.
By the way, the Law of Return was put to the test in 2011, when a gay couple, a Jew and a Catholic, made aliyah. The Jewish wife was temporarily granted citizenship, but the Interior Ministry was reluctant to settle for her husband. The ministry eventually relented, and in 2014, then-Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced that Jews in same-sex relationships who married are welcome under the Law of Return, even with a non-Jewish spouse, and that either spouse would obtain Israeli citizenship.
A pledge noted last week that non-Jewish paternal grandchildren of Jews arriving in Israel would be entitled to prestige permanent residence, but would not be granted Israeli citizenship. In the end, Likud negotiators also rejected the idea.
The Haredim abandoned the fight, abandoning devout Zionism, because they felt they could not ask for too much, as they had blocked the IDF bill and secured investment for haredi yeshivas who do not teach core subjects such as mathematics and English.
According to Professor Sergio Della Perpassla, an Italian-Israeli demographer, statistician and expert in demography, especially when it comes to the Jewish population, in 2021 there were another 18 million people who were entitled to Israeli citizenship with all the monetary benefits that entails. – and a whopping 54% of them are not Jewish.
In France, the rate of non-Jews among all eligible is 40%, and in the United States it is 55%. By contrast, in the former Soviet Union, where most Jews immigrated to Israel after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, the rate of non-Jews among those eligible for aliyah is 76 percent, and only less than a quarter of them are Jews.
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