21.   Hefetz proposed tighter restrictions and personal background checks on immigrants, who get automatic citizenship if they have one Jewish grandparent.

22.   Jews get automatic citizenship here.

23.   Many Free Democrats, for example, supported an opposition proposal to grant automatic citizenship to children of foreigners if one of their parents was born in Germany.

24.   Reform and Conservative conversions performed abroad are recognized in Israel, and followers of both streams have no trouble claiming their right to automatic citizenship in Israel.

25.   Sheinbein is entitled to automatic Israeli citizenship because his father is an Israeli citizen.

26.   Since Israel grants automatic citizenship to all Jews, he said, accepting any conversions would have dangerous results.

27.   Sheinbein has automatic Israeli citizenship because his father is an Israeli citizen.

28.   Since Israel grants automatic citizenship to all Jews, he said, accepting all conversions would have dangerous results.

29.   The bill cuts the link between German ethnicity and nationality by granting automatic German citizenship to anyone born in the country.

30.   The compromise bill gives automatic German citizenship for the first time to children born to foreign residents.