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It depends on the laws of one’s current nationality. Most civilized countries allow their citizens to hold dual citizenship, but there are some countries (such as India, Denmark, etc.) which automatically revoke their citizenship upon their citizen’s receiving another, foreign citizenship. In Israel, a person may hold dual citizenship but...

Both a resident and a citizen hold the same status and are entitled to the same rights except the right to vote in parliamentary elections and the right to hold an Israeli passport. Sometimes, residents of Israel who are not citizens choose not to become citizens because the state of...

In principle no, but it will assist applicants for citizenship in speeding up the granting of citizenship and proving the veracity of the petition....

Every Israeli citizen residing in Israel for 365 days out of 543 (18 months) is entitled to receive an Israeli passport. A travel document (laissez-passer) is issued for non-citizens and occasionally for citizens as well. The difference between a passport and travel document is that the bearer of a travel-document...

Common-law spouses of Israeli citizens can apply for legal status in Israel by virtue of the Interior Ministry’s procedure for common-law spouses. Requests such as these are submitted mostly by people for whom there is a legal or religious impediment to marriage, such as same-sex couples, spouses of different religions...