How it works

The screener we propose

A pre-verification and planning program for eligibility under Israel's Law of Return, 1950. It settles, in advance, who is entitled to come home, and hands them the proof, so that the answer already exists on the day it matters. It is built for diaspora Jews who may one day need to move quickly, and for the institutions that will have to receive them.

1. A short conversation. On the messaging app people already use, in their own language.
2. One core document. The one document that establishes the claim: the document a Jewish Agency pre-approval would turn on.
3. A clear verdict. Eligible or not eligible under the Law of Return, within minutes.
4. A dated credential. If eligible, a credential recording that finding, its date and the rule set it was tested against.

One document, and the family it carries

Where a person's own claim does not stand on its own, the screener does not stop there. It runs a derivative-eligibility check: whether eligibility attaching to a spouse, a parent, a grandparent or another relative extends to that person under the three-generation and spouse rules. To do this it builds out the family trees the Law of Return actually turns on, holding the relationships that carry eligibility and nothing else. One ineligible relative never ends the conversation for a household.

Who owns the eligibility rules

Eligibility rules are not ours to invent, and we do not want them. We propose that the rule set the screener applies is owned and maintained by the Jewish Agency, which holds the eligibility process today. Get Out Now would receive full disclosure of that rule set and review it only for internal consistency and edge cases, as a sanity check, with no veto and no power to vary a rule. The Agency owns what the check is; we run the check at scale.

This is a proposed structure. No such arrangement exists today, and nothing here should be read as an endorsement by, or an agreement with, the Jewish Agency, Nefesh B'Nefesh or any Israeli authority.

What the credential is, and is not

The credential records that a person met the eligibility test on a stated date, against a stated rule set. It does not grant entry, asylum, citizenship or Law of Return status, it does not open a border, and it binds no authority. Every one of those decisions stays with the State of Israel and the Jewish Agency.

It holds nothing

Documents are checked and not retained. Only the outcome and its date are kept. The credential lives with the person.

Natural disaster is inside the scope

Persecution is not the only event that empties a city. Earthquake, flood, fire, storm and infrastructure collapse produce the same problem on a shorter clock. The eligibility question does not change with the cause of the emergency, so natural disaster is deliberately inside the scope of this program.

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If you need help now

1. Send your first name and number, and pick your reply app. Email is optional.
2. A volunteer contacts you on the app you chose.
3. We help you understand your eligibility under the Law of Return and the official aliyah process.

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The Law of Return

Israel's Law of Return (1950) gives Jews, and their children, grandchildren and spouses, the right to immigrate to Israel and receive citizenship, wherever they were born or live today.