Getting my Israeli passport

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I have an Israeli mother, and thinking of getting my Israeli passport, so that I have it available given England is feeling less and less safe. As a child of a citizen I am automatically a citizen to my knowledge. I have a British passport

Is there any disadvantage to this? I know I would need to travel into Israel on my Israeli passport. My children would not be automatically entitled to citizenship, so I don't know what I would do if we travelled together.

I am too old for them to worry about national service for me.

Anything else?

Hi if your mother is Jewish then you are too, also your children. I don't understand why they couldn't get Israeli citizenship.

We could all do Aliyah and get passports via that route, but that requires residency. I have automatic nationality as the child of a citizen. I am just wondering if there is any disadvantage to claiming it that I am not aware of.

Rules have changed recently. You would need to make an appointment in the consulate in London but since your centre of life would not be Israel you would probably only be entitled to a travel document and not a passport. If you made aliya and got a one year passport and then spent less than 270 days in Israel in your first year you would not be entitled to a new passport.

if you become a citizen your children would also become citizens but if they live aboard they would get exemption from national service

its, as usual as everything associated with Israel, complicated so best to check with the consulate

I think you can only pass down citizenship for one generation. I was born in Israel so Israeli by birth and my children are too (though we haven’t done their passports yet) but their children won’t be. My parents made aliyah (temporarily) so have Israeli passports but I wouldn’t have been Israeli by birth if I hadn’t been born there.

If you and your children are eligible and you get the paperwork done then they’ll be called for national service at 18.

My limited understanding is that financial support is different for 'returning citizens' versus making aliyah - ie: i think you get more support as new olim. Im not 100% sure though.

@MyBeloved i think it depends whether you have lived in Israel previously and, if you did, whether you left as an adult or child