Law of Return
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The Law of Return is an Israeli law, initially passed in 1950 and extended in 1970, giving all Jews, persons with at least one Jewish grandparent, and their spouses, legal rights to enter, reside in,
Holocaust survivors arriving in Haifa in 1945, before the passage of the Law of Return
Moroccan Jewish immigrants arriving in Israel under the Law of Return, 1954
North American immigrants arriving in Israel under the auspices of Nefesh B'Nefesh
A stamp in a passport issuing holder Israeli citizenship based on Law of Return
Israel
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Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so
Law of Return
…giving all Jews, persons with at least one Jewish grandparent, and their spouses, legal rights to enter, reside in, and acquire citizenship of, the State of Israel. The 1950 law declared that "every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh [immigrant]". The legislature of Israel sought by the law to…
Tel Megiddo, the ruins of a Canaanite and later Israelite city
The Yavne-Yam ostracon, a Paleo-Hebrew inscription documenting administration in Judah
Hasmonean coin of Antigonus II Mattathias, depicting the Temple menorah
View of the Masada fortress overlooking the Dead Sea, which is the location of a 1st-century Roman siege