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The distinction between the meaning of the terms citizenship and nationality is not always clear in the English language and differs by country. Generally, nationality refers a person's legal belonging to a state and is the common term used in international treaties when referring to members of a state; citizenship refers to the set of rights and duties a person has in that nation.
An Amendment in 1971 granted the right to citizenship to Jews who expressed the desire to immigrate to Israel, without taking any formal steps. Arab Palestinians, as well as other non-Jews, wishing to obtain Israeli citizenship, had to prove that they had: been registered in the Inhabitants Registration in 1949;
Israeli and Jordanian passports were offered to former British Mandate subjects according to the citizenship they acquired in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. A significant number of Palestinian Arabs, especially in the Gaza Strip and those who found refuge in Syria and Lebanon, remained stateless, as Egypt, Syria and Lebanon did not ...
People applying for naturalization in Germany will now be required to affirm Israel’s right to exist, under changes to the country’s citizenship law. ... diaspora in Europe, which is estimated ...
Tali Fahima, an Israeli pro-Palestinian activist, describes her nationality as Palestinian. Fahima was born in Kiryat Gat, a development town in the south of Israel, to a family of Algerian Jewish origin. Fahima lives in the Arab village Ar'ara in northern Israel, and works as a Hebrew teacher.
A senior far-right member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government said on Tuesday Gaza could not survive as an independent entity and it would be better for Palestinians there to ...
The Arab citizens of Israel form Israel’s largest ethnic minority. [4] [5] They are mostly former Palestinian citizens who have continued to live in what became Israel, and their descendants. [6] The majority of Arabs in Israel now prefer to be identified as Palestinian citizens of Israel. [7] [8] [9] [10]
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed over 45,500 Palestinians, according to the health ministry, displaced nearly 90 per cent of the 2.3 million people, and left the tiny, densely populated coastal ...