Ofir Sofer, the new Israeli Minister of Integration, responsible for repatriation of Jews, advocated limiting the possibilities of non-Jewish immigrants to settle in Israel under Jewish law. TASS.
Representing the far-right Religious Zionism bloc, the minister called for changes to Israel’s Law of Return, under which Jewish descendants worldwide have the automatic right to immigrate to Israel with citizenship.
“Over the past year, a significant part of the people who made aliyah (return to Israel – about “socialbites.ca”) – about 40 thousand out of 55 thousand – to halacha (Jewish religious canons – approx. “socialbites.ca”)) . Ru”). Some of these new repatriates benefited from the Law of Return.”
Earlier, many representatives of far-right and orthodox religious political forces, which eventually formed a coalition with Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, demanded the removal of the “descendants clause” in order to preserve and preserve Israel’s “Jewish character”. From the influx of non-Jewish repatriates according to Halakha.
According to Sofer, the coalition partners have agreed that the controversial article will be changed in one way or another.
Earlier it was reported that Pugachev and Galkin could be. revoke Israeli citizenship because of their religion.