Talk:History of Israeli nationality

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This page is well started, and you have opened up a number of key topics which you can now fill out.

  • Your introductory paragraph has little to do with nationality.
  • The same is true of most of the "Development of Zionism" section. Much of this material duplicates information already available under [Zionism], and has little to do with nationality. That said, some of it is essential to this article; remove what doesn't fit and enhance what is left. In doing so, it may be necessary to reformulate the section.
  • One way of reworking it, for example, might be to move a bunch of the material into the Immigration section, then make all of that speak more directly to nationality. Not sure if this is the best approach, but it's an idea.
  • The "Acquiring citizenship" section is very promising, and contains much essential information that deserves fuller treatment. Naturalization procedures, for instance, could be described in greater detail.
  • Some footnote references don't link anywhere (eg in the Jewish Nationality and Identity section).
  • You discuss the right of return in a couple of different places--maybe this important theme deserves a section of its own?
  • The army section is good, and could be expanded to discuss other issues, such as how military service influences career success later in life, etc.
  • The minorities section could be much fuller.

Will Hanley (talk) 18:50, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

There are serious errors in this article, and overall I fail to see its relevance, as all the information it offers can be found in other articles. Here are some errors:

  1. The Knesset was established in 1949 as the Israeli parliament. It has nothing to do with the British mandate.
  2. The Histadrut was established as a Jewish trade union, the British authorities saw it as a legitimate organization, but nothing more than that.
  3. The Zionist movement encouraged Jews to immigrate to then-Palestine since its creation in 1897, and especially since 1905 when the Uganda plan was finally rejected.
  4. I don't see the relevance of the Dreyfus Affair. Dreyfus was a French Jewish officer in the French army. His affair influenced the Zionist movement, and yet it has little relevance to the Israeli nationality.
  5. The Balfour Declaration is relevant to the history of Zionism and the British Mandate over Palestine, but it has little to do with the Israeli nationality.
  6. The compulsory military service is not necessarily connected with Israeli citizenship. Many citizens are not obliged to go into the army, and some permanent residents who are not citizens must perform this service.
  7. The army service does not include agricultural training. DrorK (talk) 09:24, 19 April 2008 (UTC)