Word: citizenship
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...promise that disturbs Israelis -about 70% of whom are nonobservant -is Begin's agreement to amend the "law of return," which makes Jews from any country eligible for Israeli citizenship. Conversions to Judaism will be considered legal only if they are done according to Halakha, meaning strict Orthodox tenets. The proposed change has already infuriated Conservative and Reform rabbis in the U.S.; marriages and divorces authorized by them would also be scrutinized more closely...
...next six months," says Yosef Arziel, a leader of the movement. Another Gush Emunim spokesman, Chanan Porot, insists that the West Bank is big enough to support both Jews and Arabs. But, he adds, "the policy toward the Arabs should be changed. Either they must accept full Israeli citizenship with all rights and duties or leave the country...
Dutch society. Most are stateless, refusing Dutch citizenship. They keep largely to themselves, living in 63 government settlements. One of those ghettos is on the outskirts of Bovensmilde, a tidy, archconservative community in The Netherlands' "Bible belt." Young Moluccan radicals, many of whom have never seen their homeland, organized a government-in-exile for "the Republic of the South Moluccas" and demanded support to regain their islands. Dutch refusal to recognize their republic has led to increasing Moluccan terrorism...
...WEST BANK SOLUTION. We are ready to give the people of Samaria and Judea free option of citizenship. If they want Israeli citizenship, they will get it. If they prefer to keep their previous citizenship, they may. We are not going to force ours on them. They can have complete cultural autonomy and social and economic advancement, living in their homes. This is their homeland-living together with us. What is wrong with a Jewish majority living together with an Arab minority in peace, in human dignity, in equality of rights? I believe that we can live together...
...lives in Herzliya, was a member of an Israeli "hit team" that in 1973 killed an Arab waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, in the mistaken belief that he was a Palestinian terrorist responsible for the Munich massacre of eleven Olympic athletes. A native of Copenhagen who maintained Danish and Israeli citizenship, Ert tried to win his release by telling his flabbergasted Norwegian interrogators that he was a Mossad agent. To prove it, he mentioned that he "owned the ship" that had secretly carried uranium for Israel. (Ert has since denied saying this.) Ert also gave his captors the secret phone number...