Law of Return

The Law of Return (Hebrew חוק השבות chok ha - schwut ) is an Israeli law of 1950. It basically allows all Jews worldwide to immigrate to Israel ( aliyah ). Jew is according to who has a Jewish mother or has converted and does not belong to another religion. The Law of Return was, on July 5, 1950 adopted by the Knesset, the Israeli parliament the first law after the state's founding in 1948, five years after the end of the Holocaust.

In 1950, when the memory of the Second World War and the Holocaust was still fresh, this law should grant people the right to a Jewish mother, grandmother, or a spouse of such a halachic converts to move to Israel and acquire citizenship.

Law

On 5 July 1950, the Knesset, Israel's parliament, adopted the Law of Return. This law was supplemented for non-Jews and Jews by the Nationality Act of 1952. These two pieces of legislation combine religion, history, nationalism and democracy for single Israeli way. Together, the legislation grants special rights to Jews with the aim of facilitating their immigration to the ancestral Jewish homeland as possible.

The Law of Return proclaimed Israel as a home not only for its citizens but for all Jews everywhere, no matter the conditions under which they live.

Purpose

The purpose of the Law of Return was to build just like when Zionism, to provide a solution to the problem of the Jews, a new home for all the Jews in Eretz Israel, the Land of Israel. By the Law of Return, the Israeli state realized the Zionist "Credo ", as it was previously in the Israeli Declaration of Independence, and was established in 1922 by the League of Nations when he so instructed the UK to build the British mandated territory. There is also an implementation of UN Resolution 181 ( UN partition plan of 1947), which called for an independent Jewish state.

Religious and cultural vision

Jewish immigration to " Eretz Israel " (Land of Israel ) was regarded not only as the fulfillment of a religious and cultural vision, but as the only real option for Jews fleeing from anti-Semitic persecution. While other states had mass immigration of Jewish refugees rejected, the Yishuv in Palestine worked on making out of the desire for a Jewish homeland a political reality. They saw it as emergency aid for survival.