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Israel fears invasion of immigrants
Observer Worldview
Peter Beaumont, Jerusalem
Sunday June 16, 2002
The Observer
Israel is introducing stringent new measures to reduce dramatically immigration by
Palestinians from the occupied territories who marry Israeli Arabs.
The move threatens to deter thousands of couples planning marriages in which one
partner is an Israeli Arab and the other a Palestinian.
In some cases it threatens to split up existing marriages - where one partner is
seeking to join an Israeli Arab partner who is resident in Israel or to legitimise
their
stay in Israel.
A new unit is to be set up in the Interior Ministry to conduct background checks on
all Palestinians applying for the right to reside in Israel on the ground of 'family
reunification' - mainly through marriage. Private detectives will monitor applicants.
The moves follow the Israeli claim that 'around 100,000 Palestinians' have migrated
to Israel since the Oslo peace accords were signed in 1993, as a result of marrying
Israeli Arabs.
The new moves have emerged amid a sense of panic in some sections of Israeli
society over demographic research that suggests Jews - as recognised by the
Orthodox rabbinate - could be in a minority in Israel within 30 years.
There is to be a freeze on all applications for residency and citizenship from
residents of the West Bank and Gaza, and a sixfold rise in the application fee for
'family reunification' from $100 to $600 - the equivalent of six weeks' pay for a
middle-ranking Palestinian civil servant.
That freeze will be challenged in court this week by the Association of Civil Rights in
Israel.
Israel also froze all family unification requests following the discovery that a
suicide
bomber who attacked a restaurant in Haifa two months ago had an Israeli identity
card.
The introduction of the harsh new rules has caused alarm among couples who have
already married and where a partner is seeking permission to remain.
The Observer approached three married couples in the Jerusalem area in which
one partner was a Palestinian: all declined to be identified.
'We are in an absolutely critical position right now,' said a Palestinian man recently
married to an Israeli Arab woman. 'It is too dangerous. We cannot risk being
identified or drawing any attention to our case.'
Sergio Della Pergola, head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew
University, published a report last week saying that more Jews would emigrate from
Israel this year than would arrive by immigration.
Although some 30,000 immigrants - largely from eastern Europe, the former Soviet
Union and South America - will arrive in Israel this year, down from 43,443 last
year, Della Pergola points out that over half of those arriving under the 1950 Law of
Return will not be Jewish according to halacha, or Orthodox rabbinical law.
In the past two years, since the beginning of the present intifada, says Della
Pergola, emigration by Jews from Israel has reached 15,000 to 20,000 annually.
The increase in immigration of those designated non-Jews is the result of a
provision of the Law of Return that guarantees automatic citizenship to anyone who
can claim Jewish ancestry up to the third generation. It also allows an immigrant
who meets these qualifications to bring a spouse and children.
A second report published last week calculates that 28 per cent of Israelis are now
'not Jewish'. Other demographers estimate that by 2020 a third of Israel's population
could be non-Jewish.
The chairman of Israel's National Security Council, Major-General Uzi Dayan,
claimed last week that by 2020 Arabs in Israel and the Palestinian areas would
outnumber Jews by 55 to 45 per cent.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2002
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