The man whose case helped define the “Who Is a Jew” controversy in Israel died July 30 in Haifa. Brother Daniel Rufeisen was born a Jew in Poland, converted to Catholicism during World War II and moved to Israel in the 1950s. In the 1960s, Israel’s High Court of Justice refused his request for citizenship because of his conversion. He was 78 and will be buried in a Christian cemetery in Haifa.
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