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Protesters rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil outside his court hearing in New York City, March 12, 2025. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)
April 11, 2025, 4:23 pm
US Jewish history fuels community’s concerns about Trump deportations
Activists, leaders and historians say perceived erosion of civil rights under administration threatens Jews, even if action needed to combat antisemitism
By Luke Tress
Palestinians check the site of a deadly explosion near Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)
October 18, 2023, 2:44 pm
Daily Briefing Oct 18: Day 12 of war – Biden in Israel & truth about the Gaza strike
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on the crumbling Palestinian narrative about the Gaza hospital explosion and the social media blame game
By ToI Staff
US citizens in Israel board ship at Haifa port to be evacuated to Cyprus, on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Flash90)
October 17, 2023, 1:18 pm
Daily Briefing Oct 17: Day 11 of war – Biden to visit Israel, as some US citizens leave
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses US involvement in Hamas hostage negotiations and Canaan Lidor reports from Netivot, Ofakim and Haifa’s port
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A US passport. (vlana/iStock/Getty Images)
June 3, 2021, 7:11 pm
With major COVID backlog, US citizens in Israel struggle to renew passports
New policy allows citizens to enter US on expired passports, but doesn’t enable return trip back to Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
Elad Dvash-Banks, right, and his partner, Andrew, play with their twin sons, Ethan, left, and Aiden in their Los Angeles apartment, January 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
October 10, 2020, 7:59 am
US court rules son born abroad to gay Israeli-American couple is a citizen
Judges strike down State Department appeal over earlier decision child is American despite being conceived with Israeli father’s sperm and born in Canada using a surrogate mother
By brian melley
This undated photo provided by Immigration Equality shows Roee, left, and Adiel Kiviti, right, with their children newborn, Kessem and older brother Lev. (Courtesy of Adiel and Roee Kiviti/Immigration Equality via AP)
June 18, 2020, 3:04 am
Judge rules US can’t deny citizenship to child of US-Israeli gay married couple
Court rejects State Department position that girl, born to a surrogate in Canada, was born out of wedlock because one of her married parents is not her biological parent
By Michael Kunzelman
In this photo taken on Jan. 24, 2019, Denis Wolok, the father of 1-month-old Eva's father, shows the child's US passport during an interview with The Associated Press in Hollywood, Florida (AP Photo/Iuliia Stashevska)
January 25, 2020, 12:36 pm
US moves to restrict entry for pregnant women on ‘birth tourism’
New visa rules aim to minimize number of foreigners who take advantage of American ‘birthright citizenship,’ a particular area of chagrin for Trump
By Matthew Lee and Colleen Long
Illustrative: A Hamas flag at the Temple Mount, in 2013 (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)
December 19, 2019, 3:10 pm
US Justice Department seeks to revoke citizenship of Hamas supporter
Officials say Palestinian man hid his conviction and incarceration in Israel for helping terror group during naturalization process
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A PLO supporter in the West Bank, January 5, 1988. A 50-year-old California man was stripped of his US citizenship on Friday for lying to immigration authorities when he became a citizen about his conviction for an attempted 1988 PLO terrorist bombing. (AP Photo/Anat Givon)
April 27, 2019, 6:17 am
Man convicted of bombing Israeli bus stripped of US citizenship
Fifty-one-year-old Vallmoe Shqaire of California to be imprisoned, deported to Jordan for lying to immigration authorities about his role in 1988 terrorist attack
By AP
Elad Dvash-Banks, right, and his partner, Andrew, play with their twin sons, Ethan, left, and Aiden in their apartment Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
February 23, 2019, 11:24 am
Judge grants citizenship to twin son of Israeli-American gay couple
‘This is justice!’ say Andrew and Elad Dvash-Banks; State Department previously denied request because boy is not his US parent’s biological son
By AP and ToI Staff
Elad Dvash-Banks, left, and his partner, Andrew, pose for photos with their twin sons, Ethan, center right, and Aiden in their apartment Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
February 22, 2019, 12:34 pm
Israeli-American gay couple wins lawsuit to have twins recognized as US citizens
Request was previously denied because boy is not his US parent’s biological son; judge rules children of Americans who marry abroad are citizens if parents married at time of birth
By ToI Staff and AP
Hoda Muthana, a US-born former Islamic State propagandist, who is being barred from returning to the US (Screen capture/ABC News)
February 21, 2019, 4:28 am
Trump bars US-born woman who joined IS from returning
Pompeo says 24-year-old Hoda Muthana is not an American citizen, though she was born in the country and apparently traveled to Syria on a US passport
By Shaun Tandon and Gianrigo Marletta
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks during a naturalization ceremony at the rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, DC, Dec. 14, 2018 (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)
December 15, 2018, 1:19 am
Ruth Bader Ginsburg swears in new immigrants, wows them with her story
Speaking of her immigrant father, judge says: ‘What is the difference between a bookkeeper in New York’s garment district and a Supreme Court justice? One generation’
By Ron Kampeas
In this photo from October 27, 2018, US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing for a rally in Murphysboro, Illinois. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)
October 30, 2018, 5:00 pm
Trump says he plans to scrap birthright citizenship for some children
US president claims he can override, with an executive order, Constitution’s granting of automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country
By AFP
Elad Dvash-Banks, left, and his partner, Andrew, pose for photos with their twin sons, Ethan, center right, and Aiden in their apartment Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
January 24, 2018, 4:34 am
Israeli-American gay couple sues US for denying citizenship to 1 twin son
The Dvash-Banks family says that law only granting citizenship at birth to genetic children of US citizens discriminates against LGBTQ community
By brian melley
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