President Reuven Rivlin has sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, and a number of Knesset committees expressing opposition to a clause in the proposed Nationality Law that permits yishuvim and moshavim to turn down requests from non-Jews wishing to reside in the community.

Sharing the president�s concerns is Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, who has expressed his opposition to the clause permitting communities from barring non-Jews.

President Rivlin refers to Paragraph 7B of the proposed law, which states, �The state may allow the community, including members of one religion or of one nationality, to maintain separate communal settlement.�

Those opposed fear this clause may be used against Jews around the world and in the State of Israel.

(YWN Israel Desk � Jerusalem)