“One of their main coalition demands is the abolition of the “paragraph on grandchildren” in the Law of Return,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Gervits recalled that a Jew is one whose mother is Jewish.
“Such a person is called “the last Jew” in legal practice.
Two generations are counted from him - to children and grandchildren.
And they also have the right to repatriation,” the lawyer said.
Gervits emphasized that the abolition of this paragraph will affect tens of thousands of immigrants from the countries of the former USSR if the legislative act is retroactive.
In September, it became known that the Israeli Ministry of Finance, together with the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, which deals with the repatriation of Jews, intend to submit to the Israeli government a financing plan for repatriates from Russia for 90 million shekels ($25.5 million).