(NEWS) Scholar Urges 'Law Of Return' Changes

"Gavison: It may be time to separate aliya from automatic citizenship.

One of Israel’s best-known legal scholars, Prof. Ruth Gavison, is urging a rethink of the provisions of the Law of Return that could lead to eliminating automatic citizenship for new olim.

In a paper titled 'The Law of Return at 60 Years,' Gavison, a professor at the Hebrew University, writes that citizenship would best be granted not automatically to every oleh, but 'according to sensible conditions, such as a length of stay in the country, integration in it, and a declaration of loyalty toward [the state] as is practiced in the case of other candidates for citizenship.'"