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Answers to Issue Two<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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1. A child of a Jew who accepts Yeshua as the Messiah and belongs to the group called \u201cMessianic Jews\u201d is considered to have changed their religion voluntarily under Section 4a(a) of the Law of Return.<\/li>\n
2. A child of a Jew who accepts Yeshua as the Messiah and belongs to the group called \u201cMessianic Jews\u201d is not entitled to an oleh visa under the Law of Return.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

   Analysis<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

   Section 4a(a) of the Law of Return states that the rights of a Jew according to the Law of Citizenship and the rights of an oleh according to any other legislation are also given to a child and grandchild of a Jew, to his spouse, and to the spouse of the Jew\u2019s child or grandchild, excluding a person who was a Jew and changed his religion voluntarily.<\/p>\n

   The court states that the main purpose of Section 4a of the Law of Return is to help mixed-marriage families \u2013 Jews and non-Jews \u2013 immigrate to Israel as a family unit, in the \u201chope that all its members [will] affiliate themselves to the Jewish people.\u201d A member of a mixed family who was a Jew according to Law and who voluntarily converts to another religion under Section 4a(a) is not entitled to immigrate under the Law of Return for the same reasons that they are not entitled to immigrate under the Law of Return as someone who is a \u201cmember of another religion\u201d under Section 4b.<\/p>\n

   Holding<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

   The court held that the petitioners had become members of another religion under section 4b of the Law of Return under each of its three criteria. It also held that the petitioners voluntarily changed their religion under Section 4a(a) of the Law of Return.<\/p>\n

   Judgment<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

   The petition was rejected.<\/p>\n

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   Our law office summarizes the most pertinent cases which established judicial interpretation of Israeli laws over the past decades. In this article, we review the “First Beresford case”, which established that Messianic Jews do not have the right to immigrate (make Aliyah) to Israel under the Law of Return. Facts The petitioners are a married…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[668,627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aliyah-to-israel","category-judgment-summaries"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n