Supreme Court Rejects Citizens' Request to Change Nationality from 'Jewish' to 'Israeli'
Oct-04-2013
Court rules against change in identity card registration, citing that there is no proof of the existence of a uniquely 'Israeli' people.
Courtesy: dualcitizenship.com
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(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request by a group of Israelis to declare that they were members of the Israeli people and to allow them to change the ethnic registration on their identity cards from “Jewish” to “Israeli.”
The court ruled that the issue was not one for the court to decide and that there was no proof of the existence of a uniquely “Israeli” people. The court’s ruling echoed that in a similar case 40 years ago.
