Can Jews married to Muslims live in Israel?

Answer 1

Answer 1

While Jews throughout the world can move to Israel and gain automatic citizenship, non-Jews do not have such a right. The minor exception to this rule is Palestinians who were born to Palestinian parents who have Israeli citizenship.

Answer 2

-- The question asks whether non-Jews can be citizens, not whether citizenship is automatic.

The correct answer is that significant fractions of Israel's population are Muslim citizens, Christian citizens, or Druze citizens, and that other small portions of the population are Buddhist citizens, Hindu citizens, Baha'i citizens, and atheist citizens, among others. All citizens of Israel have voting rights, and Muslims, Christians, and Druze representatives have been elected to seats in Israel's national parliament.

There is in fact a difference between Jewish Israeli citizenship and Arab Israeli citizenship. All Jewish citizens of Israel are required to do military service. Arab Muslim citizens are not. (There are other Arab citizens who are also required to do military service or may volunteer.)

Regarding "automatic citizenship", note that such a practice is virtually non-existent in the world, even in the US, the UK, etc. Immigration and citizenship in virtually all countries is limited, and subject to quotas and qualifications. (It is curious to note that other nations do have automatic citizenship for a certain ethnic group, such as Poland for Poles, Lithuania for Lithuanians, Armenia for Armenians and so on but nobody argues against these laws and calls them unfair.)

Jews have been citizens of their home country for four thousand years, but in some periods of history have lacked access to that country. In 1948, the home country of the Jews was restored in Israel, and it welcomes its rightful citizens from all of the other places in the world where they're not wanted.

-- The statement that non-Jews are prohibited from purchasing land in Israel is false, and the statement that non-Jews have limited educational opportunities in Israel because they are non-Jews is false.

-- The non-Jewish Palestinian population in Israel lives throughout the country,

including heavily-ethnic-Arab towns and villages in Israel, where they predominate in the education, employment, commerce. and culture of those Israeli towns and villages. Those who are Israeli citizens vote in their towns and villages during elections.

Note also that non-citizen, non-Jewish, non-resident Palestinians have brought land-use cases against Israel's government, in Israeli courts, and have won their cases.

Note also that although there are large numbers of Palestinians in Israel, both citizens and non-citizens, there are no 'refugee camps' in Israel.

Answer 2

Unfortunately no, because the government of Israel is an orthodox religion based government, strict marriage laws apply. Therefore, to marry a non-Jew one must leave the country, get married, then return.

In Israel one need to get marriage according to one's religion, It is one of the things that helps Israel to maintain it's status as a Jewish country. In order to have any type of mix marriage, the couples need to get marriage outside of the country, and when they return to the country, they get recognition from the government as a marriage couple, with all of it's legal status.

The above issues misconstrue the compromises made to form the State of Israel with the intentions and idea of the Israeli Government. When Israel was being formed, Ben Gurion and the majority of Jewish Pioneers were secular and wanted to create a government based on Western Laws and Traditions. However, there was a small Orthodox contingent that wanted to make Israel a State according to Jewish Law and Tradition. To prevent the Orthodox from seceding from the new government, Ben Gurion made a compromise to entrust life-rituals such as birth ceremonies, death ceremonies, and marriages to the Orthodox Rabbinate for control and ministry. This allowed the nation to function as a whole. However, since the Orthodox Rabbinate does not condone inter-religious marriage, such a thing is forbidden in Israel, even for non-Jewish inter-religious marriage (i.e. a Muslim marrying a Christian). Each religion is given control of its respective life ceremonies in order to avoid Jewish religious hegemony. In order to get around this, the secular Israeli Knesset and Supreme Court has passed laws recognizing any foreign marriages as legally binding, including inter-religious marriages and same-sex marriages (which are also banned by the religious courts). Many Israelis go to Cyprus or Spain to get married and then return to Israel afterwards.

Answer 3

It's unclear what the question is asking.

1) Can a non-Israeli Jew bring his non-Jewish wife to visit Israel? -- Certainly. Israel does not ban people on account of their religion. If it turns out that your wife only carries the passport of a country that does not recognize Israel, there could be a problem, but she would not be rejected because of her religion/ethnicity.

2) Can a non-Israeli Jew bring his non-Jewish wife to Israel to get her residency? -- No. No country really allows non-citizens to just drop people off and let them expire on their visas so that they can live somewhere else.

3) Can an Israeli Jew bring his non-Jewish wife back to Israel to live together? -- Certainly. Israel recognizes all marriages performed abroad except those performed by officials in countries that do not recognize Israel or in those countries. However, if she is not an Israeli citizen, this will not expedite the process in any way.

Answer 4

There are large Christian, Muslim, Baha'i, Hindu, Buddhist, and atheist communities

in Israel, and more of each arrive steadily. Whereas Jews are guaranteed citizenship,

there are requirements and procedures for non-Jews to be granted citizenship. (Just

as there are for virtually all immigrants to virtually all other countries.)

Answer 5

There are several thousand Jewish-Muslim couples living in Israel. It is only that Jews and Muslims cannot marry in Israel since Israeli Rabbis will only marry Jews and Israeli Imams will only marry Muslims. Israeli Jewish-Muslim couples that want to get married usually go to Cyprus to tie the knot and then have their marriage recognized in Israel as a foreign civil marriage.