uabb domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /var/www/sites/lawfirmbackup_200125/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131As you may know, people who have been convicted of a criminal offense will find it difficult to exercise their right to make Aliyah to Israel based on the Law of Return. The applicant must present real evidence of their rehabilitation in order to convince the Ministry of the Interior not to reject the Aliyah application. Our office specializes in immigration law and immigration to Israel. We have previously written about the challenges in submitting an Aliyah application for people with a criminal record<\/a>. This article illuminates the issue from another angle, explaining the subject of Aliyah with a criminal record in Hebrew law.<\/p>\n In the Law of Return<\/a> there is a 1954 amendment, known as subsection 2 (b)(3), which allows the Minister of the Interior to reject an application for Israeli citizenship if the applicant has “a criminal record that may endanger public safety”. In practice, anyone who wishes to obtain legal status under the Law of Return is required to present a police clearance certificate,<\/a> and any criminal record may serve as grounds for rejection.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court (in its function as the High Court of Justice) ruled that a person can have a criminal record and yet not endanger public safety. In this same ruling, they established tests to assess the degree of danger posed by an Aliyah applicant.<\/p>\n Also, there have been many statements by Israeli courts regarding the rights of those who committed a criminal offense, completed their prison sentence, and then corrected their ways and rehabilitated themselves. The picture that emerges from a study of Israeli jurisprudence is that serving a prison sentence or punishment and changing one\u2019s ways, that is, sincere and real rehabilitation, should lead to true forgiveness and reaching out to the past offender, rather than to continued persecution and condemnation.<\/p>\n But, as people who live in the reality on the ground, applicants with a criminal record still encounter difficulties and delays that sometimes amount to actual malice. This can apply even for a minor offense such as personal use of cannabis, or an offense that was committed more than a decade or even two decades ago.<\/p>\n This article will briefly examine Judaism’s attitude to forgiveness and the erasure of a person’s sins in Hebrew law. The goal is to offer another tool to strengthen the legal rationale and to fortify the position that in Aliyah applications a criminal record does not in itself indicate dangerousness, and that a change is called for in the attitude towards Jews worldwide who want to make Aliyah to Israel and are rejected even though they have paid for their crime and been rehabilitated.<\/p>\n In the Jewish view, there is no sin or offense that does not result in punishment. And the need to atone for the act is twofold: before the person who was hurt and before God. The word forgiveness in Hebrew, in its original meaning, is a waiver \u2013 thus the forgiveness of a sin is actually a waiver of the punishment the sinner owes.<\/p>\nAliyah with a Criminal Record – Brief background<\/strong><\/h4>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\nWhat is the value of forgiveness in Hebrew law?<\/strong><\/h4>\n