Israel’s chief rabbis called for revisions to the law guaranteeing Israeli citizenship to any Jew. Speaking at a convention of rabbis in Jerusalem this week, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron said 70 percent of new immigrants to Israel, many of them from the former Soviet Union, are non-Jews.
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