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Originally Posted by ROBERT.BAK
Israeli is a nationality, or location-adjective (like English, which according to some is not a nationality); Jewish is a race or religion (the latter is also called Hebrew IIRC, which for its part is also a language and character set).  |
Actually in Israeli documents like birth certificates you would never find "Israeli" in the nationality field. Several people in Israel have tried to register their nationality as "Israeli" and the courts have always ruled against it, claiming there's no such ting as an "Israeli nation". The majority of Israel's residents have "Jewish" in that field. In Israeli passports "Israeli" is written in the "Nationality" field, but the name corresponding field in Hebrew means "citizenship" rather than "nationality". A "Race" field would not be politically correct... The "politics of identity" in Israel is quite complex, and anyway we should not discuss politics in these forums.