תושבות קבע במזרח ירושלים — מעמד השוואתי שאינו אזרחות (חוק הכניסה לישראל)

תרחישים לדוגמה

• Status secure as permanent residency; NOT citizenship

  The holder has continuous center of life in East Jerusalem with no Reg. 11a settling-abroad trigger, so the permanent-residency status under the Entry into Israel Law §2(a)(4) is well-maintained and not at risk of automatic expiry (Awad HCJ 282/88). However it is emphatically NOT citizenship — it is a status under the Entry into Israel Law 5712-1952, evidenced by a laissez-passer not an Israeli passport, with no Knesset vote and no auto-transmission to children. The cascade-first residency/citizenship boundary controls: secure status, but a lesser civil status than nationality.

• Status lapsed; reinstatement application required

  The holder triggered multiple Reg. 11a 'settled in another country' grounds — more than seven years abroad (Reg. 11a(1)) AND acquisition of another country's citizenship (Reg. 11a(3)) — and the center of life shifted abroad (Awad HCJ 282/88, the very fact pattern of Mubarak Awad, who lost status by relocating to the USA and acquiring US citizenship). The permanent-residence permit therefore 'expired of itself' (פקע). Reinstatement is not automatic; the person must file a PIBA status-reinstatement application (בקשה להחזרת מעמד) re-establishing a connection to East Jerusalem. NLR: exact reinstatement fee not pinned this harvest.

• Eligible to apply under §5; PR satisfies the §5(a)(3) gate; grant discretionary

  A PR holder MAY separately naturalize under Citizenship Law §5 — and permanent residency uniquely satisfies the §5(a)(3) permanent-residence-entitlement condition, the single most load-bearing naturalization gate. §6(c) exempts a former Palestinian national from the §5(a)(5) Hebrew requirement, and Procedure 4.4.0001 §14.2 provides a workaround for the Jordanian-renunciation problem under §5(a)(6). However the grant is DISCRETIONARY (Minister grants 'if he sees fit', §5(b)) and historical uptake is low with documented delay. This is a separate citizenship process (IL-NAT-01), not part of the residency route.

• Eligible under Citizenship Law §4A (stateless-born route), not the residency route

  Born after the State's establishment in territory that was Israeli on the day of birth (East Jerusalem post-1967 is treated as such for §4A), never held any nationality, and within the 18-21 application window after 5 consecutive years' residence — this fits Citizenship Law §4A (IL-SPC-01). East-Jerusalem (Jordanian-citizen) §4A applicants are exempted from proving renunciation under stated conditions, and a never-nationalized applicant has no renunciation to make. This is a CITIZENSHIP route distinct from the PR status; the §4A fee is ILS 205 (2026). The PR status would have been the fallback civil status absent naturalization.

• Subject to §11A breach-of-allegiance revocation, with no-statelessness safeguard

  Since 2018, the Minister may revoke a permanent-residence permit for 'breach of allegiance to the State of Israel' under Entry into Israel Law §11A (Amendment No. 30 5778-2018), defined to include a terror act per the Counter-Terrorism Law 5776-2016. This power was created precisely because Abu Arafeh (HCJ 7803/06, 2017) held no such power existed before 2018. A no-statelessness safeguard requires an alternative residence permit, and carve-outs (Justice-Minister approval where over 15 years have elapsed since grant, or where a parent held PR at birth) may apply. CRITICAL: this is Entry-into-Israel-Law §11A (cancel a residence permit), NOT Citizenship Law §11 (revoke nationality) — the holder is a resident, not a citizen.

• No automatic inheritance; registration on return + center-of-life proof required

  Unlike a citizen's child, who acquires citizenship ex lege under Citizenship Law §4(a)(1) jus sanguinis (IL-BTH-01), a permanent resident's child does NOT automatically inherit permanent-residency status. The child obtains status only if the parents return to East Jerusalem and prove center of life, via a PIBA registration application; registering a child over 14 is administratively very difficult. This non-transmission is one of the core ways permanent residency is a lesser status than citizenship.