Eliyah Hawila, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim man who impersonated an ultra-Orthodox Jew and was uncovered only after he had wed a member of Brooklyn’s Jewish community, arrived in Israel over the Passover holiday in order to undergo full conversion to Judaism • Full Story

Eliya Haliwa, who was exposed as a Lebanese non-Jew after marrying a Syrian Jewish girl from Brooklyn last October, is actually Jewish, according to Rabbi Avraham Reich of the Hatzalas Yisrael community in Brooklyn

Chief Rabbi of Israel Rav Dovid Lau spoke about the issue of Ukrainian refugees which has been making the headlines in recent days, with many left-wing and centrist politicians fiercely opposing Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked’s plan to impose a strict quota on the number of non-Jewish Ukrainian refugees Israel will accept • Full Story

As Israel accepts hundreds of Jewish Ukrainian refugees into the country, one prominent organization says that doing so is part of Israel’s “ethnic cleansing.” Jewish Voice for Peace, a far-left anti-Israel group, slammed the Jewish state for “settling” Jewish Ukrainian refugees in a series of tweets • Full Story

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked on Tuesday announced a new policy for the arrival of non-Jewish Ukrainian citizens into Israel. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Shaked said that Israel will temporarily host 20,000 Ukrainian citizens who were already in Israel before the outbreak of the war, most of them illegally, until the danger passes, and apart from exceptional cases, will not act to forcibly evict them • Full Story

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) is eliminating the category of “other” in its official publications, which means that all non-Jews who aren’t Arab will now be classified as being in the “extended Jewish population.” The new classification will include hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the FSU who gained Israeli citizenship through the Law of Return and non-Jews who gained citizenship by marrying Jews – up to 4.6% of the Israeli population or 415, 147 Israelis (as of 2020) • Full Story