Comments on: Israel: High Court – No IDF Service No Passport

By: yonah65

yonah65 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:51:10 +0000

Yidden should not be leaving ‘eretz yisro’el anyways, in this case the state is just sending a message from H’. There are no good medical programs in ‘eretz yisro’el that he should have to go to Columbia?

By: yehudah y d

yehudah y d — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:53:54 +0000

# 1 This has nothing to do with chareidem,this guy didn’t have a student exempt and he just left the country. If someone is in yeshiva and that’s an exemption he will have no issues.

By: WolfishMusings

WolfishMusings — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:48:02 +0000

Of course this leaves them stateless

I’m fairly certain that loss of a passport does not render one stateless. My kids and my mother don’t have passports, but they’re still U.S. citizens.

The Wolf

By: akuperma

akuperma — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:18:50 +0000

This means that Hareidim (other than the handful of men who serve in the army, and the few if any women who do) can be denied passports, and if a Hareidi holding Israeli citizenship leaves Israel they can lose their passport. Indeed, if the opinion is correct, it would be a legal basis for authorizing the round up and expulsion of Hareidim.

Of course this leaves them stateless, and if they have legally entered the United States, allows them to apply for refugee status (which leads in many cases to a “green card”).

It also establishes a precedent to strip a majority of Israeli Arabs of Israeli citizenship.

While the Israeli Supreme Court has never liked frum Jews, they are unlikely to go along with with the lower court judge said, since it would be a very radical step politically.