Israeli citizenship

Adalah petitions High Court to return bodies of six Arab citizens withheld by Israel

Palestinian legal group Adalah petitions Israel’s High Court to return the bodies of six Arab citizens, challenging the longstanding policy that justified withholding bodies for leverage.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem
A woman picking out produce at a market.

Not a status, but series of moments: What it truly means to become Israeli - opinion

A British immigrant reflects on becoming Israeli, through war, work, family, and small daily moments that shape a true sense of belonging in Israel.

|ByELEANOR VON WEISL
Supreme Court justices preside over a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025

Israel’s Supreme Court blocks automatic citizenship for non-Jewish children of immigrants

The 6-1 decision by the Supreme Court overturns a precedent set only months earlier, and restores the Interior Ministry’s longstanding interpretation of the law.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
RELEASED HOSTAGE Edan Alexander embraces his father as he reunites with his family.

I still trust my Israeli passport because I have faith in the Israeli people - opinion

As a Jew, the fear that something might happen to you is not abstract. It’s real. And if it ever does, I would bet every dollar I have that my Israeli passport would save me.

|ByZINA RAKHAMILOVA

Israeli Americans are eligible for stimulus checks tax attorney tells Post

Each person seeking the relief must have a US social security number, and the deadline for the US to provide the money is the end of 2020.

MARCH 29, 2020ByOMRI NAHMIAS
U.S. President Trump holds news conference on the coronavirus outbreak at the White House in Washington

Palestinian who helped save the Mark family granted Israeli residency

Rabbi Michael “Miki” Mark, 48 was killed in shooting terror attack as he drove on Route 60, between the Otniel and the Beit Hagai settlements. His wife and two of his children were in the car.

AUGUST 8, 2019ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Family of Rabbi Michael Mark at his funeral in Jerusalem

Easing adjustment to Israel: One immigrant helping others

When Lara Itzhaki helped her brother plan his aliyah, she had no idea she’d be kick-starting a business plan to help new immigrants

AUGUST 18, 2018ByNATALIE BLENFORD
lara itzhaki

Israeli identity and the anti-‘freier’

If an American Jew strives to be a mensch, then an Israeli Jew seeks to be an “anti-freier.”

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017ByIDO LEVY
AN ANTI-FREIER is likewise a hard person who pursues his goals aggressively.

Government strips 2,600 Beduin of citizenship due to 'registration error'

The punitive retroactive measure has effectively left them stateless in a country where most were born in subsequent generations.

AUGUST 29, 2017ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
A man carries hay to feed livestock in the Beduin village of Bir Mshash in Israel's southern Negev December 10, 2013.

Israeli court rules to revoke citizenship of convicted terrorist

Judge said Arab attacker who injured four people abused his citizenship rights and thus excluded himself from society.

AUGUST 6, 2017ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
Stabbing in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel

Gueule de bois messianique

Plusieurs fois menacé depuis la guerre des Six Jours, le consensus national, alimenté par le pragmatisme des Israéliens, l’a toujours emporté

JUNE 18, 2017ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
2005. Militants contre le désengagement de Gaza

Pass the Jewish nation-state law

The “Jewish” side of the formulation “a Jewish and democratic state” is under internal assault as well.

MAY 11, 2017ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
‘TODAY THE State of Israel’s identification with Jewish nationhood is under attack from all sides.’

I am an Israeli Citizen.

JANUARY 7, 2017ByMICHAEL BENJAMIN
The Jerusalem Post

The Fire Next Time

NOVEMBER 24, 2016ByABE HAAK
The Jerusalem Post