Is there any difference between Israel and other countries in regard to conversion to Judaism?

In Israel, unlike in other countries, there is somewhat of a less emphasis on discouraging people from joining the Jewish people. After all, a Jew living in Israel hardly feels himself to be a member of a minority living among a non-Jewish majority. In Israel, the rabbinate conducts official courses for prospective converts, of about six months' duration. Most of these are held in religious kibbutzim. At the end of the course, each prospective convert appears before a bet din made up of three rabbis sent by the chief rabbinate, and only those satisfying the bet din of both their sincerity and their basic Jewish knowledge are permitted to convert.

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