The Latvian Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to initiate the suspension of the law “About repatriation” due to increased demands from Russian citizens. It has been reported DEA News With reference to Baltnews.
In the report, “The Ministry noted that Latvian Russians, with the “right to repatriation”, increasingly began to demand repatriation status and permanent residence permits.
According to Baltnews, after the law was enacted in 1995, “return flows were evenly distributed between Eastern and Western countries”, but last year, the share of Russians who were repatriated or received family member status reached 100. 81% of the total.
Ofir Sofer, the new Israeli Minister of Integration, previously responsible for the repatriation of Jews, advocated limitation Opportunities for non-Jewish immigrants to settle in Israel in accordance with Jewish law. Prior to this, many representatives of the far-right and orthodox religious political forces, which eventually formed a coalition with Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, demanded the removal of the “grandchildren’s provision” to preserve Israel’s “Jewish character”. According to halacha, it protects from the influx of non-Jewish repatriates.