Copy of Israel's Law of Return and an Israeli Supreme Court ruling finding that people who believe in Jesus are not Jewish, so that the Law of Return does not apply [ISR16504.E]

Attached please find information concerning the above Israeli Law of Return and related Supreme Court decision.

This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Attachments

Israel. Ministry of Justice. 1992. The Law of Return. (UNHCR REFLEG)

The Law of Return. 5 May 1950. Paragraph 51-1. (Translated by Shoshana Zak)

Landau, Asher Felix. 1990. The Jerusalem Post Law Reports. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University.

Mallison, W. Thomas and Sally V. Mallison. 1986. The Palestine Problem in International Law and World Order. Harlow, Essex: Longman Group Ltd., pp. 430-31.