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Liberman files High Court petition against DNA tests for immigrants from USSR
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleYisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman submits an petition to the High Court of Justice to end DNA tests for immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
Liberman files the petition after the chief rabbinate rebuffed his request to end the tests.
The petition also calls for prohibiting reexamining the Jewishness of immigrants who have already been determined to be Jews.
Many immigrants from the former USSR are not considered Jews under Jewish religious law, which requires having been born to a Jewish mother.
Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu draws substantial support from immigrants from countries that were once part of the Soviet Union.
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