Did you know that intermarriage is illegal in the state of israel?

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That is both false and misleading.

It is false because intermarriage is not and has never been illegal in Israel.

The distortion is that until a few years ago it was very difficult to get an interfaith marriage conducted inside Israel. But, this was not because Israel was biased or because it blocked interfaith marriages.

It was an unintended consequence of a law written to protect the religious freedom of everyone.

The law said that any official clergy could officiate a wedding. This protected every religious group.

However, every religious faith refused to marry people of different faiths. So, Muslim Imams refused to marry people unless both parties were Muslim, Christian priests the same and Rabbis the same.

Because Israel did not have "civil marriages" by justice of the peace, only some consular officials could conduct weddings.

And of course, Israel recognized marriages done outside of Israel.

I find the second part puzzling. In Israel, a convert to Judaism is 100% Jewish and has no restrictions.