Alberto Monteiro asked <<Uh? What do you mean? If I decide to become a (religious) Jew I would have no right to Israeli citizenship unless I could dig out some (ethnic) Jewish ancestor?>>
Ilana If your conversion is Orthodox you have a right to Israeli citizenship. Alberto Monteiro <<OTOH, if an (ethnic) Jew who professes any religion [Christian, Satanist, Marxist, etc] has the right to Israeli citizenship?>> Ilana In most cases - no. Alberto Monteiro <<And what is the definition of an ethnic Jew? Is there any DNA test for that? :-)>> The definition is - "one whose mother is Jew", but The Law of Return gives Israeli citizenship to "any Jew and his/her family" and "grandson/daughter of Jew and his/her family". My mom's cousin is married to Belo-Russian, their daughter is married to Lithuanian, their granddaughter is married to Dutch - only my mom's cousin is a Jew - but all the family has Israeli citizenship (except Dutch guy - I don't know if Dutch rules permit double citizenship. Jeroen?) Ilana from Israel
