In less than a month, Interior Ministry to reinstate one-year residency test before issuing new Israeli passports to immigrants, rolling back policy to pre-2017 era

Immigration Ministry will maintain fast-tracked program for Ukrainians and special cases, but says it wants to focus on absorbing the massive wave of people who arrived last year

Alina Tirnovienko made aliyah in 2019, and works at historic Matzot Aviv factory

Proposed legislation would only allow new arrivals to receive documentation after residing in Israel for 1 year; ministry says some exploit benefits without settling down

Poll finds more people think foreign Jews should be part of debate on proposal to revoke 'grandchild clause,' but lots don't know; most think such a move would cut immigration

MyHeritage shares 1.7 million files covering a roughly 60-year period, touts the database as Israel's version of Ellis Island

73.6% of residents Jewish, 21.1% Arab; population grows by 2.2% amid surge of immigrants from Russia and Ukraine

Some 70,000 people made 'aliyah' over the past year, mostly from formerly Soviet countries, over double 2021's total, according to Jewish Agency figures

Yesh Atid's Razvozov says such a change to Law of Return would be 'shameful,' Reform movement warns it would 'lead to an irreversible rift with Diaspora Jewry'

Head of office that checks citizenship eligibility for Ukrainian immigrants reflects on early days of Russian invasion, vows to abide by whatever coalition decides on Law of Return