O come, O come, Immanuel,
and ransom captive GAZA from Israel
that mourns in lonely exile here...
I saw this online and was like OMFG!
Then a serious thought or two crept in. I know there are lots of Arabs and Palestinians who are Christian. What about Christians that are Israeli citizens?
searches turned up:
Non-Jewish foreigners may naturalize after living there for at least three years while holding permanent residency and demonstrating proficiency in the Hebrew language. Naturalizing non-Jews are additionally required to renounce their previous nationalities, while Jewish immigrants are not subject to this requirement.
A Christian can emigrate to Israel, but not on the fast track that the Law of Return provides for Jewish immigrants. As a Christian, you’d enter on some kind of limited visa and you’d probably have to extend it again and again every few years until you could get an application for permanent residency considered seriously.
You can apply for the status of permanent resident if you can present yourself as indispensable at your Israeli workplace or to your Israeli family, or if you’re in danger of persecution back home, or if you’ve done wonderful things in Israel. Whether or not to grant the status is up to the discretion of the bureaucracy. The other possibility is that they tell you you have to leave temporarily and apply for a new visa for another stay. (And in the worst-case scenario, that visa won’t be granted.)
If you are accepted as a permanent resident, you have all the rights and responsibilities of a citizen, except the right to vote. But as a Christian, you’d have to make yourself exceptionally dear to the state in order to become a citizen.
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and ransom captive GAZA from Israel
that mourns in lonely exile here...
I saw this online and was like OMFG!
Then a serious thought or two crept in. I know there are lots of Arabs and Palestinians who are Christian. What about Christians that are Israeli citizens?
searches turned up:
Non-Jewish foreigners may naturalize after living there for at least three years while holding permanent residency and demonstrating proficiency in the Hebrew language. Naturalizing non-Jews are additionally required to renounce their previous nationalities, while Jewish immigrants are not subject to this requirement.
A Christian can emigrate to Israel, but not on the fast track that the Law of Return provides for Jewish immigrants. As a Christian, you’d enter on some kind of limited visa and you’d probably have to extend it again and again every few years until you could get an application for permanent residency considered seriously.
You can apply for the status of permanent resident if you can present yourself as indispensable at your Israeli workplace or to your Israeli family, or if you’re in danger of persecution back home, or if you’ve done wonderful things in Israel. Whether or not to grant the status is up to the discretion of the bureaucracy. The other possibility is that they tell you you have to leave temporarily and apply for a new visa for another stay. (And in the worst-case scenario, that visa won’t be granted.)
If you are accepted as a permanent resident, you have all the rights and responsibilities of a citizen, except the right to vote. But as a Christian, you’d have to make yourself exceptionally dear to the state in order to become a citizen.
Can a Christian become a citizen of Israel?
Answer (1 of 7): According to Israeli law, a Canadian Christian cannot become an Israeli citizen. 750000 Arab Christians an Arab Muslims were kicked out of this self declared country in 1948. They have no right to return. But a Jewish Russian or Romanian and so on can. Allowing a Christian to mov...
