11.   The immigration plank in the GOP platform adopted this week would deny automatic citizenship to babies born to illegal immigrants.

12.   Under the so-called Law of Return, Jews receive automatic citizenship.

13.   Orthodox rabbis warned that would lead to huge numbers of non-Jews undergoing quick conversions and thus becoming eligible for automatic Israeli citizenship.

14.   Orthodox rabbis warned that would lead to huge numbers of non-Jews undergoing quick conversions to be eligible for automatic Israeli citizenship.

15.   And in a historic project recognizing that Germany is more and more multicultural, children of foreigners are to be offered automatic German citizenship for the first time.

16.   Both sides acknowledge that overturning the right to automatic citizenship for immigrant offspring is a longshot.

17.   But Hefetz proposed tighter restrictions and personal background checks on immigrants, who under existing law receive automatic citizenship if they have one Jewish grandparent.

18.   But others consider themselves Jews and were recognized as such by the state -- which extends automatic citizenship to anyone with one Jewish grandparent.

19.   Children adopted from abroad and other foreign-born children of American parents will receive automatic U.S. citizenship under legislation Congress has passed and sent to the president.

20.   Children of Israeli citizens are normally accorded automatic citizenship.