The war in Ukraine is another junction of a significant test of demographic policy and Israeli immigration policy.
Only now, for the time being, has the debate over whether to restrict (temporarily) the naturalization of Arab "migrant immigrants" ended, and immediately, in the face of the war, the question of non-Jewish DPs arose from there.
A similar question arose in the face of immigrants from Africa about 15 years ago, and may arise in the face of the wave of refugees from one of the countries of the bloody region around us.
I remember Abu Mazen's request to bring in Palestinians from Syria, refugees from the civil war there.
Such a request, if raised by Israeli Arabs as well, is similar to the request of Israeli citizens to bring relatives or friends of war refugees in Ukraine into the country.
The basis for requests is similar: family or national affiliation, and the right of citizens whose country will open its gates to their relatives.
But Israel can respond to such requests only to a small extent.
We can not afford promiscuous behavior like that of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the face of the wave of refugees from the Middle East.
Ayelet Shaked is right: The demographic composition is in Israel's top interest, and determines the state's ability to persevere in its national identity.
Non-Jews from Ukraine should be admitted only sparingly, and should not be allowed to settle here.
Israel defined itself not only in the Declaration of Independence, but also in the Law of Return, which applied the most important issue of that scroll - immigration to Israel and the establishment of a Jewish state - and established one of the state's main values.
It is not the source of the right of Jews to immigrate and become citizens, but it is based on the assumption that this is their right in the first place, before the enactment of the law, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, and the right is not conditional on the Law of Return.
He just recognizes it and applies it.
And it not only affirms a right, passively, that is, not only permits entry and naturalization, but also establishes an active purpose for the state: it is intended to group Jews into it and fortify their sovereign self-government.
This purpose defines Israel, and requires a firm and active demographic policy.
Two laws regulate the immigration regime in Israel in order to fulfill this purpose.
In addition to the Law of Return, which opens gates to Jews, the Citizenship Law makes it difficult for non-Jewish immigrants to become citizens.
Both the opener and the hardship must be realized in the crisis in Ukraine, and both have the same logic and the same justifications: to ensure Jews one small corner of their own in the world, to ensure affirmative action and self-rule for the high-risk Muslim and Christian civilizations, and to ensure the collective-political existence of Culture, faith and language are valuable to all of humanity.
We seem to tend to forget these important principles, in the storm of humanitarian sentiment that arises in us in the face of Russia's atrocities in Ukraine.
Time and time again, Israelis are called to remember the low point they came from.
This is what, for example, the President of Ukraine, the Jew Vladimir Zalanski, claimed.
Forgetting or trying to forget the fact that the haunted place we came from is the deep reason for our determination to preserve and strengthen the clear Jewish identity of the state.
True, this position creates not easy problems.
One of the complications is due to the fact that Jews in many countries, such as Ethiopia, Ukraine or the United States, are demographically integrated into the peoples of those countries and are involved in all areas of life. Your relatives. Therefore, the Law of Return also applies to relatives of Jews, and creates the category "Entitled to the Law of Return." There is a good chance that non-Jews among them will eventually be absorbed into the Jewish national collective, Of the Jewish people.
Therefore, precisely because of the same difficulty, it is essential to quantitatively reduce the additional citizenship of non-Jews who are not entitled to the Law of Return.
Absorbed non-Jews It is possible and desirable to attach to our society and culture (in "social conversion"), or convert them to religious conversion, but only if they are not too many.
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