Israel's Immigration Policies and the Promotion of Genetic Testing: Empiricizing Definitional Criteria, Bolstering State Demographic Security, or Hastening the Messianic Era?

The aims of this study are to document a relevant array of perspectives on the use of genetic testing for the purposes of approving immigration to state of Israel, and to consider the potential implications of such testing for the larger Jewish world. Further, this work analyzes the views of a number of prominent national figures-in the rabbinical, governmental, educational, and private sectors in Israel-on this subject. Finally, it provides a critical assessment of the varying contentious scenarios that may manifest themselves with regard to the claims of contested Jewish communities from the Global South whose genetic "evidence" is not as readily accessible as is that of Jews hailing from established centers of Jewish life.