Policy

[A-Palestinian]

I have not been able to find adequate information on Israel's Non-Jewish Immigration Policies. My questions pertaining to this are the following:

1) Does it exist? (If no, then there is no need to read on further.)

2) I wish to know Israel's non-Jewish immigration quota statistics, on average. (i.e, how many non-Jews are allowed immigration into Israel per year, on average?)

Those are all my questions for now.

Just so that there is no confusion, by immigration, I mean a legal residual status given to a person, by a State, whence said person is thus allowed to and/or expected to permanently live in that State.

- I ask because I was just looking at some lovely pictures of Tel - Aviv on the internet. :)

[Oh Jerusalem]

The Law Of Return (http://www.jafi.org.il/aliyah/aliyah/law.html)

[A-Palestinian]

The Law of Return concerns Jewish Immigration.

However my question specifically pertained to non-Jewish immigration.

Re-Read post#1.

[Oh Jerusalem]

Originally posted by A-Palestinian
The Law of Return concerns Jewish Immigration.

However my question specifically pertained to non-Jewish immigration.

Re-Read post#1.

A non-Jew may apply for permanent residence status if the applicant can show special reasons for wishing to live in Israel. The granting of such status is at the complete discretion of the Minister of the Interior and is rather rare. Christian clergy are the most common example for obtaining this status.

[A-Palestinian]

I see. Thank you.

Would you know and/or would you point me towards actual statistics for incoming immigrating non-Jews?

[L@mplighterM]

The granting of such status is at the complete discretion of the Minister of the Interior and is rather rare.

I take it that he's not related to Peres.

[Oh Jerusalem]

Originally posted by L@mplighterM
I take it that he's not related to Peres.

I don't get it.

[L@mplighterM]

It was just a deep dumb joke.

Based on.

The granting of such status is at the complete discretion of the Minister of the Interior and is rather rare

What I was trying to get across is the fact that the current immigration policy seems fair and is undoubtedly based on security.

Having followed the conflict from afar Peres strikes me as having been a stumbling block to Sharon taking tough action against Arafat.

I see him as a little white dove that believes that he can make peace with a demon.

If he applied the same standards to Israel’s immigration policy or the enforcement thereof it would in my opinion have catastrophic consequences.


There’s an obvious reason that it’s rather rare for a non-Jew being allowed immigration status to Israel.

I’m not trying to belittle Peres and his intelligence but I think he’s not hard/tough enough to deal with Arafat.

So by my initial statement I was implying that he might not be hard/tough enough to exclude persons that could be a threat to Israel’s national security.

In any event that's how I've summed up Peres.

[sharonbn]

A-Palestinian,

You can try the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (http://www.cbs.gov.il/engindex.htm)

One diagram from that site (in pdf):
http://www.cbs.gov.il/shnaton52/st04_01.pdf

Also an item about minorities in Israel from the foreign office site:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00mc0

[A-Palestinian]

Thank you Sharonbn.

The first link provides a wealth of information. However, most of it concerns statistics under the Law of Return. (Thus, Jewish immigration). I did see a referrance to a separate "Law of Entrance" however. Perhaps it is this law that governs non-Jewish immigration...

[Oh Jerusalem]

Is there a point to be made here about this threads topic or is this purely academic?

[A-Palestinian]

Just academic.

[gregg]

I dont know where to get this info, But I know many Chrsitian Immigrants from Russia do come as well.

[elke]

About 15 years ago, I was in Israel with a large group of people. A member of our group, who wasn't Jewish (Polish origin, from Canada) decided to stay in Israel. I don't know how, but she managed to do so. I don't even think she converted, because she was not religious: she just liked Israel.