In 2006, I finished my studies at the National University of La Plata, and wanted to travel around South America. My math professor suggested I move to Israel and do “Aliyah” (the migration of Jews to Israel, accompanied by citizenship). He told me that the Jewish Agency will take care of everything: paying my flight ticket, grant me monthly payments, teach me Hebrew and possibly even grant me a scholarship to study at university. At the beginning, I thought that I would not be eligible to apply for “Aliyah”, as I am not Jewish, but my professor knew the procedures and encouraged me by saying “They want me, you and everyone else”. So in August 2006 I went to the Jewish Community Center (AMIA) in Buenos Aires for the first time, and the first question I was asked was “When do you want to go to Israel”? I told them that I might not be eligible due to the fact that only my father is Jewish, but they did not care and told me that my surname is Jewish and that I only needed to submit a document proving my connection to Judaism. I discovered that the father of my grandmother was buried in a Jewish cemetery in Argentina, so I went to the cemetery received a document stating that my great grandfather was buried in a Jewish cemetery. With that document I went to a synagogue in Buenos Aires, where the Rabbi automatically gave me another document to prove that my father is Jewish. So I went to AMIA with that document and that was it; I was automatically eligible to do Aliyah in Israel, even though I am not Jewish. It is a kind of family unification, because of the theoretical possibility that my father who is Jewish and therefore eligible for Israeli citizenship could move to Israel. And consequently as his son, I too received the “right” to live there. Even though, I do not have any real connection to Israel, yet I am allowed to live here, and be given full citizenship and the rights which come with it. Child Registration in East Jerusalem Over the years Israel imposed increasingly restrictive procedures for the registration of children of couples where one or both spouses are Palestinian residents of Jerusalem. The legal framework governing child registration is Section 12 of the Entry into Israel Regulations, and lacks any real clarity on issues relating to Palestinians. Three main scenarios can be described: 1. Israeli citizenship/ Permanent residents A child who is born in Israel, including occupied and annexed East Jerusalem, to an Israeli citizen; or to two parents who are permanent residents, will receive an identity number at the hospital and is subsequently registered in the Israeli Population Registry. The parents need to go to the Ministry of Interior, where the child’s name, date of birth and identity number are recorded in the parents’ identity cards, and therefore granted the Israeli citizenship or permanent residency status. 2. Only one parent with Permanent residency status A child born to parents only one of whom is a resident of East Jerusalem does not receive an identity number at the hospital 39