Penelope
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Israel's amended Law of Return grants Jews as well as non-Jewish spouses, children, and grandchildren of Jews and their spouses to immigrate to the Jewish state.
Central Bureau of Statistics data shows that more than 430,000 people living in Israel are non-Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, who immigrated to Israel after 1989 under the Law of Return.
"There are many, many non-Jews here, and some of them are Communists, enemies of the faith, haters of religion," Yosef said. "They aren't Jewish at all, they are non-Jews. And they vote for parties which incite against haredim and against the faith.
"They were brought here to Israel so as to serve as a counter-balance against the haredim. So that in elections there won't be too many haredim. That's why these total non-Jews were allowed to immigrate to Israel – absolute non-Jews. Unfortunately, we are seeing the result of their incitement," he said
https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/01...cklash-for-comments-on-non-jewish-immigrants/
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So is Israel even a Jewish state? I mean we give them over 3 billion bucks to defend themselves.
Misleading thread title.
The 430,000 is less than 5% of Israel's population - that's after 30 years!
And mostly those non-Jews who immigrate from the former Soviet region countries, only stay for a short period taking advantage of the financial benefits before moving to US and Canada.
According to demographic trends, in less than 2 generations - every 3rd Israeli is an Orthodox Jew.
Nowhere in the article does it say "soon most of Israelis won't be Jews", that's just your deception.
True, they will either be ultra orthodox , and growing fast I've read, they are growing in the NY as well.