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A record number of non-Jewish immigrants to Israel Israel today

2022-12-01T21:49:19.202Z


The war between Russia and Ukraine caused many non-Jews to immigrate under the grandson section of the Law of Return.


Only three out of ten new immigrants who arrived in Israel until mid-November from Russia and Ukraine are Jewish, according to the data of the Population and Migration Authority.

About 32 thousand of the 47 thousand immigrants who came to Israel are not Jewish.

This is a record number of non-Jewish immigrants who immigrated to Israel through the Law of Return due to the war between the two countries.

The Knesset is expected to discuss extensively the Law of Return, and ways to find a solution to the immigration of hundreds of thousands of non-Jews.

Thanks to the "grandson clause", it is actually possible for people who are descendants of Jews to immigrate to Israel, either for reasons of immigration or as a transit stop on the way to European countries or Canada.

fleeing the hell in Ukraine,

Today, more than 400,000 non-Jews live in Israel, which raises concerns among certain circles about the future of the State of Israel.

In Russia alone, there are between 750 thousand and one million people entitled to the Law of Return, and apparently the proportion of non-Jews among them is large.

In Russia, there is a whole market of businesses that offer locals, for a large sum of money, to obtain Israeli citizenship using loopholes in the Law of Return.

A report by the Knesset's research institute published a few weeks ago revealed that in recent years, only about 28 percent of the immigrants who came from the countries of the former Soviet Union were Jews. This year, because of the economic and civil crisis afflicting Russia, this proportion swelled to enormous proportions.

"The Law of Return must be rebalanced", Dr. Nathaniel Fisher, photo: None

According to calculations made by Dr. Nathaniel Fisher of the academic center Sha'arei Science and Law, at the current rate about 40 thousand non-Jews will arrive in Israel by the end of the year. to the Jews and their immediate families, while encouraging conversion for those interested in it," believes Dr. Fisher.

This week it was published in "Israel Hayom" that according to the state conversion data, over the 30 years of immigration from the countries of the former Soviet Union, about 22 thousand people immigrated - which means that in one year alone, 1.5 times more non-Jewish immigrants immigrated to Israel than the number of people immigrated over three decades.

The rate of increase is significantly greater than the rate of conversion.

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Source: israelhayom

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