What about native born Israelis? Israel would be their country of origin (birth), right?
Israel used to have your religious or ethnic status in place for nationality. It was kind of a left over idea from the early periods, so you could be born in Israel with citizenship but it would say "Druze". If you were Jewish, it would say "Jew". But then the right wing Orthodox started freaking out about 'who was a Jew' and which conversions were valid and so a minority of the Israeli population - heredi- started to control that. If your mom was Christian and your dad Jewish, you couldn't have "Jew" on your nationality. They claim there is no such thing as an "Israeli" nationality, which is bogus.
The early government decided to keep some of the old Ottoman Empire laws, and they let religious authorities of each religion dictate things like marriage and family law and conversions and such. The Rabbinical Court in Israel is elected by a few, but unfortunately, they control marriage amongst Jews in Israel. So if you are "Jewish" and your fiance is "Christian", you have to go abroad for a civil marriage. MAJORITY if Jews in Israel are NOT Orthodox (most are secular) and it is a pain in the ass. It's stupid.
*sigh*
Plus, now ID cards can be used by IDF or potential renters or employers to (quietly) enhance prejudices. (Again, minority, but it counts.)
So the Interior Ministry is NOT part of the Rabbinical Court, but Bibi's government is a 'coalition' government (its parliamentary) and it needed the very right wing and racist Shas party to keep power over the Likud party (which actually got majority votes) so the Interior Minister, who is allied with the Rabbinical Courts, is...yup, from the Shas party.
So even though Israeli Jews are mostly secular (like American Jews), a fringe group gets to control stupid shit like that.
Meh. I probably babbled. Yeah, there are several different things you can pick from or list it blank. Not sure if "American" is an option, but "Hebrew" is (or was, maybe they changed it) and I'm going to reject any until the process is fair again for everyone. The High Court ruled that the ultra Orthodox nutjobs couldn't determine who was a Jew but Yishai, the Shas IM, is trying to ignore the ruling. At first, he just took off 'nationality' so that he wouldn't have to write "Israeli". But now he's putting it back on there and re-inforcing the old "Jew" rule...basically, the new rule tells about 300,000 Israeli Jews that they aren't "Jews" anymore.
Whenever a country wants to determine religion on an ID card, Israel freaks. Israel and Jews freak out when they can potentially be cited for being Jewish. Yeah, well, Israel's very tiny minority Orthodox whackjobs like to know who's in the Hebrew Lunch Club and that's no different.
It's dumb. All Israelis (Muslim, atheist, whatever) have the same civil rights in Israel and there is clearly an Israeli nationality, but the Orthodox don't want to separate Judaism from Israel....even though Israelis want a secular government.
I'm half Irish, half Native American. Ohhh fun. My Cherokee grandfather can hold his liquor like no one's business. :P
You are just bragging. :roll:
