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Saturday, November 29, 2025

11/29 Links: Israeli president: Move to rename Dublin’s Herzog Park ‘disgraceful’; Tom Stoppard, acclaimed playwright of ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,’ dies at 87

From Ian:

John Podhoretz: Tom Stoppard, 1937-2025
That essay, “On Turning Out to Be Jewish,” was about all Stoppard had to say about his relation to Jewishness and Judaism over the course of the following two decades. But then, according to his official biographer Hermione Lee, he read a novel by a Croatian writer named Dasa Drndic called Trieste. A character in the novel, writes Lee, “lacerates real historical figures whom she describes as ‘bystanders’ or ‘blind observers.’ They include Herbert von Karajan, Madeleine Albright, and Tom Stoppard: people who discover their family history, but turn a blind eye to it. Her ‘blind observers’ are ‘ordinary people’ who “play it safe. They live their lives unimpeded.'”

This hit Stoppard hard. Writes Lee: “He thought: yes, actually, she’s right. He felt that Drndic was justifiably blaming him for excluding from this ‘charmed life’ all those others who had ‘disappeared.’ He took it as an intelligible rebuke. He felt regret and guilt….He went back over his family history, and his Jewishness. It began to seem to him that he had been in denial about his own past. He increasingly felt that he should have been rueing his good fortune in escaping from those events, rather than congratulating himself. As a playwright, he needed to inhabit those lives he never lived, in his imagination. He started to think about a play which would answer the rebuke.”

That play is Leopoldstadt, and in every way, it is a miracle. It is the greatest play of our time, and the greatest play Stoppard ever wrote, and perhaps the greatest literary work written by an octogenarian. It is set not in Czechoslovakia but in an apartment in Vienna we see at four moments in time—1899, 1924, 1938, and 1955. Over the course of the first three scenes we meet 20 members of the extended Marz-Jacobowicz family. In the final scene, only three remain; all the others are dead, either directly or indirectly, due to the Holocaust. One of them is Stoppard’s stand-in, a young British writer who has no memory of his youth in Vienna from which he was removed by his widowed mother’s fiancee until he is reminded of a scar on his hand. He cut it as a little boy and had it stitched up by a now-dead uncle in that very apartment. He dissolves into tears. His cousin, a survivor of the camps, says to him, “You live as if without history, as if you throw no shadow behind you.”

The richness of the assimilated existences of the Jews of turn-of-the-century Vienna whose Christmas celebration (!) we witness at the play’s beginning is revealed in all its fragility almost immediately; success for the family’s richest member comes in part from his converting to Christianity, but the converted man is soon humiliated for his Jewishness by his wife’s Austrian military-officer lover. The first act features a passionate argument about Zionism and Herzl’s The Jewish State, and the great shadow cast over the rest of the proceedings is if the people in that apartment had heeded Herzl’s call and understood his ideas, they would have moved to Palestine and lived.

Leopoldstadt is a great work of art, and not a tract, but it is the most explicitly Zionist work of art of our time—though the point seems to have sailed over the heads of most of the people who wrote about it in words of extravagant praise. Its celebration and success capped Stoppard’s career not a moment too soon. Because, of course, had he written it three years later and had it been staged in London and New York after October 7th, its Zionism would have been unavoidable to all who saw it, and there would have been protests against it outside the theaters that showed it.

Tom Stoppard chose to stop “living as without history” by writing Leopoldstadt, and in so doing, he brought his career to its apogee with an earnest and passionate piece of work in which he played none of the linguistic games that had made him famous. He wanted to make it known that we must all live with history, with the knowledge of history, with the lessons of history, and not have them erased—either by parents whose journeys were too painful to share with their children and grandchildren or by those who seem determined to forget so that they can commit the same crimes anew, the crimes their grandparents and great-grandparents committed. Tom Stoppard did not live the life of a Jew, but in writing Leopoldstadt, he contributed to the treasure-house of civilization, and for that, he deserves eternal honor. He did good for his people and for the West. May Tom Stoppard’s memory be for a blessing.
Tom Stoppard, acclaimed playwright of ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,’ dies at 87
Stoppard was born Tomas Straussler on July 3, 1937 in what was then Czechoslovakia, the son of Eugen Straussler, a doctor, and Marta (or Martha), née Beckova, who had trained as a nurse.

The Jewish family fled the Nazis and moved to Singapore when he was an infant.

Singapore in turn became unsafe. With his mother and elder brother Peter, he escaped to India. His father stayed behind and died while fleeing after Singapore fell to the Japanese.

In India, Marta Straussler married a British army major, Kenneth Stoppard, and the family moved to England.

Boarding school followed at Pocklington in Yorkshire, northern England, where Tom Stoppard loved cricket more than drama and learned how to be British, which Major Stoppard considered the ultimate nationality.

The adult Stoppard, who rediscovered decades later the Jewish roots that he explored in his final play, would accuse his stepfather of "an innate antisemitism."

He eventually learnt from Czech relatives that all four of his grandparents had been Jewish, and that they had died in Nazi concentration camps.

"I feel incredibly lucky not to have had to survive or die. It's a conspicuous part of what might be termed a charmed life," he wrote in Talk, a US magazine, in 1999, reflecting on returning with his brother to their birthplace Zlin in what is now the Czech Republic.
Scarlett Johansson: I was asked not to make a film about the Holocaust
In Scarlett Johansson’s first film as director, an elderly Jewish woman falsely claims to be a Holocaust survivor after an innocent misunderstanding spins out of control. A month before filming was due to begin, one of Johansson’s financial backers got in touch with a stipulation regarding the script. The gist of it? Love the film, Scarlett, but we’re not so keen on the whole Holocaust thing. Can we have the character lie about something else?

The demand came “after months of preparatory work”, Johansson recalls, despairingly. “I mean, if they’d said ‘I’ll only back this if you shoot in New Jersey,’ or ‘We need to get this done by the spring’, then that would have been one thing. But they were objecting to what the film actually was. It had to be about what happens when someone gets caught in the worst lie imaginable; if not the Holocaust, then what could it be? They offered no alternative. It was just, ‘This is an issue.’”

The Avengers and Marriage Story star stuck to her guns. So the backer pulled out and, with just weeks to go, a significant portion of the $9m (£6.8m) budget disappeared overnight. “We’d been talking about the film for so many months, and then this was the outcome?” she says. “It was really shocking, and I was so disappointed.” Fortunately, an emergency ring-round soon brought Sony Pictures Classics on board as distributors – the studio made up the shortfall, and filming went ahead as planned. tmg.video.placeholder.alt wZ6l2ue--KA

Time was of the essence – not least because Johansson’s leading lady, June Squibb, who had recently celebrated her 94th birthday, was only available for a few weeks. (The redoubtable star of Nebraska and Thelma turned 96 earlier this month.)

Today the two women are sitting side by side in a mirrored salon overlooking the Boulevard de la Croisette in Cannes. Squibb is wearing a colourful silk kimono; Johansson, a white cotton tea dress. Their film, Eleanor the Great, had its world premiere at the town’s festival the previous day, which Johansson attended with her husband, the Saturday Night Live comedian Colin Jost. She and Squibb have just had lunch together, and I’m joining them for coffee and chocolates.


Israeli president: Move to rename Dublin’s Herzog Park ‘disgraceful’
If Dublin renames Herzog Park, named after Israel’s sixth president, Chaim Herzog, it would be “a shameful and disgraceful move,” Isaac Herzog, the Jewish state’s current head of state, said on Saturday night.

Chaim Herzog (1918-97) was Isaac’s father.

“We are following with concern the reports from Ireland regarding the intention to harm the legacy of the sixth President of the State of Israel, the late Chaim Herzog, as well as harming the unique expression of the historical connection between the Irish and Jewish peoples,” Isaac Herzog said in a statement.

“Beyond being an Israeli leader, Chaim Herzog was also a hero of the campaign to liberate Europe from the Nazis [as an officer in the British Army] and a figure who dedicated his life to establishing the values of freedom, tolerance, the pursuit of peace, and the fight against antisemitism,” Isaac Herzog continued.

Rabbi Isaac HaLevi Herzog (1888-1959), Chaim’s father, served as the first chief rabbi of the Irish Free State—as well as the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the State of Israel—“and left a significant mark on the life of the Irish nation in those days,” the president went on to say.

Naming the park, located in the city’s suburb of Rathgar, in honor of Chaim Herzog in 1995 “expressed appreciation for his legacy and the deep friendship between the Irish and Jewish peoples,” the Israeli president noted.

He lamented the deterioration in relations between Ireland and the Jewish state in recent years, adding that he hopes for their “recovery.”

The Dublin City Council is convening on Monday to deliberate a proposal to remove the park’s existing name and to replace it.

According to Irish outlet The Journal, Labour Party councilor Fiona Connelly made a motion in December 2024 regarding the name of the park, which was adopted by the city council’s South East Area Committee.

Two separate petitions called on the committee to adopt the names “Hind Rajab Park,” after a girl allegedly killed by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza during Israel’s war against Hamas in 2024, and “Free Palestine Park.”


Irish government slams Dublin plan to remove name of Chaim Herzog from city park
The Irish government on Saturday urged the Dublin city council not to rename a park honoring former Israeli president Chaim Herzog.

A Dublin City Council committee has proposed renaming the city’s “Herzog Park” — named after Ireland-born Chaim Herzog, Israel’s sixth president and the father of the current president, Isaac Herzog.

Ireland has been among the most outspoken critics of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, and the move followed a campaign by anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activists, but official council documents did not disclose a reason for the proposal.

“This name change should not proceed and I urge Dublin city councillors to vote against it,” Irish Foreign Minister Helen McEntee said in a statement.

McEntee said Saturday that Ireland, home to about 3,000 Jewish people, had been “openly critical of Israel’s policy and actions in Gaza and the West Bank.”

But “renaming a Dublin park in this way — to remove the name of an Irish Jewish man — has nothing to do with this and has no place in our inclusive republic,” she said. Protestors gather in front of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, on May 14, 2024. (Stringer/Anadolu)

The foreign minister spoke out after a copy of the city council report dated Monday circulated online showing that the city’s naming committee had agreed that Herzog’s name should be removed from the park, and referred the decision to the council for a vote.

Herzog, who died in 1997, was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland and grew up in Dublin before serving as Israeli president between 1983 and 1993. His father was the first chief rabbi of Ireland after it gained independence from Britain in 1922.

The office of President Isaac Herzog said Saturday that the proposal, due to be approved next week, would be “shameful and disgraceful” if it is carried out. The statement from Herzog’s office implied that the council was aiming to rename the park “Free Palestine.”

Irish Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder said Saturday that removing the name from the park “would be to erase a central piece of Irish-Jewish history, and send a painful message of isolation to our small community.”

The rabbi added that “Herzog Park is more than a name on a sign. It’s a place filled with memory, and an important reminder that our community has deep roots in Dublin.”


Why the Indo-Pacific now matters more than ever for Israel
Israel’s entry into the Indo-Pacific is no longer a theoretical project. It is a strategic necessity. Israel must remain relevant and institutionalize an Indo-Pacific strategy not just scattered bilateral relations. It must also deepen the trilateral formats: Israel–India–Japan and Israel–India–UAE.

Additionally, Israel must build Indo-Pacific-focused defense R&D and joint production initiatives; invest in maritime domain awareness and supply-chain security partnerships; and position itself as a resilience partner, not merely a defense exporter.

The Indo-Pacific is where the next decade of global security competition will be decided. Israel cannot afford to stand on the sidelines.

The more unstable the Middle East becomes, the more essential it is for Israel to anchor itself in the world’s most strategic mega-region – where its technological, intelligence, and operational advantages can shape real partnerships.

Israel’s future security depends not only on what happens in Gaza or Tehran but also on what happens in New Delhi, Tokyo, and the wider Indo-Pacific.


Hamas terrorist surrenders to IDF after crossing 'Yellow Line'
A Hamas terrorist crossed Gaza's Yellow Line and surrendered to IDF soldiers on Saturday, a US official told CBS News.

The report did not specify where the incident occurred along the ceasefire line.

The terrorist told the IDF that Hamas recently recruited him, but he regrets his choice to join the terror group, the official told CBS.

"Gazans know there can be no future under Hamas," the US State Department's Office Bureau of Near Eastern commented on X/Twitter.

"Gaza can be an incredible place but it must first be free of terror and terrorists," the department added.


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Tucker Carlson’s New ‘West’: A Civilization with No Room for Mainstream Jews
Carlson’s “West”: A Civilization with Judaism Removed
Carlson cloaks his argument in talk about “the individual soul,” claiming Zionism violates Western values by affirming Jewish peoplehood. This may resonate with those unfamiliar with history, but it collapses instantly under scrutiny.

Judaism has always existed as both a faith and a people tethered to the land of Israel. And the West, itself, does not exist without Judaism.

The ideas of a moral universe governed by law, of human dignity rooted in a divine source, of covenant and equality — these are Jewish innovations. Christianity’s intellectual framework is built directly on Jewish scripture and philosophy. The American Founders repeatedly cited Hebrew texts as the basis for natural rights and the inherent worth of the individual.

To claim Zionism — the modern expression of Jewish self-determination — is anti-Western is like claiming the spine is anti-body. It is not merely false. It is an erasure.

And it echoes Charles Lindbergh’s 1941 assertion that Jews “distort American policy” and threaten Western civilization — a narrative Carlson now repeats almost word for word.

Projection Disguised as Principle
Carlson accuses Zionism of “tribalism,” “group supremacy,” and “identity politics.” But these traits define the “woke right” movement he has helped empower.

Nick Fuentes openly advocates stripping Jews of civil rights.
Marjorie Taylor Greene promotes Christian nationalism.
The “National Conservative” sphere defends ethnic hierarchy.
White nationalist rhetoric about Jewish “control” now circulates across the digital landscape Carlson helped cultivate.

These are not champions of universal individualism. Along with the far-left, they are among the most identity-obsessed factions in American politics. Carlson’s charge against Jews is not simply hypocritical — it is psychological projection.

He sees in mainstream Jews what the “woke right” and the far-left are both championing: a politics of grievance, fear, and internal enemies. And, as history shows, it is always the Jews who get cast in the internal enemy role.


North Carolina rejects BDS groups’ claim of ‘victory’ after it sells Israeli bonds
Earlier this week, several pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel groups in North Carolina touted the state pension fund’s sale of $6.7 million in Israeli government bonds as a “victory.”

But despite the groups’ claims, the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer said that the sale had nothing to do with “divestment” but was simply a part of a routine portfolio rebalance.

“The sale of two Israel Government International bonds was not related to a divestment exercise,” the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer said in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “The previously held bonds were sold in October during a larger fixed income portfolio rebalancing exercise that sold bonds with shorter remaining maturity than the portfolio typically holds.”

The activists had hailed the sale as a win for the boycott Israel movement.

“VICTORY: NC DIVESTS FROM ISRAEL!! Genocide and apartheid are a bad investment,” wrote the Jewish Voice for Peace chapter of Triangle North Carolina, in a post on Instagram, adding that the sale was a result of a “powerful campaign” supported by over 40 local organizations.

The JVP chapter had joined with several other groups, including Muslims for Social Justice and Jewish Voice for Peace Charlotte, to form Break the Bonds North Carolina Coalition, a campaign advocating for divestment. Similar campaigns have long lobbied treasury officials in other places.

But the likelihood that officials in North Carolina would pass BDS measures appeared unlikely. In 2017, the state’s governor signed into law a bill that banned state agencies from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. The elected state treasurer, Brad Briner, is a Republican, as is the majority of the legislature. The governor, meanwhile, is a moderate Jewish Democrat who has never made Israel a centerpiece of his politics.

Still, anti-Israel sentiment that has surged among Democrats has made an impact on the state. In June, the North Carolina Democratic Party passed a resolution calling for the United States to implement an immediate arms embargo on Israel. And in August, the Democratic Rep. Valerie Foushee announced that she “will not accept” donations for the 2026 elections from the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.
Northwestern Agrees To Reverse Concessions to Pro-Hamas Protesters in Deal With Trump Admin
Northwestern University on Friday agreed to terminate its deal with pro-Hamas protesters and pay the United States government $75 million to restore the nearly $1 billion in federal funds frozen over its response to anti-Semitism and racial discrimination on campus.

The university vowed to reverse the policies implemented under its "Deering Meadow Agreement" that disgraced former Northwestern president Michael Schill struck with pro-Hamas encampment organizers. The terms of that deal included recruiting two Palestinian professors and providing five full-ride scholarships to students from Gaza, as well as building special housing for Middle Eastern, North African, and Muslim students.

In response to a request for comment, a university spokesman pointed the Washington Free Beacon to a statement from interim Northwestern president Henry Bienen, who said that the settlement ends "a deeply painful and disruptive period in our university’s history."

"As an imperative to the negotiation of this agreement, we had several hard red lines we refused to cross: We would not relinquish any control over whom we hire, whom we admit as students, what our faculty teach or how our faculty teach," Bienen stated.

The news comes several months after Columbia University agreed to pay the federal government $200 million to end a series of investigations, beginning a wave of settlements that has since included Brown University, Cornell University, and the University of Virginia. While negotiations with Harvard University have taken significantly longer, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said last week that a settlement is on the horizon.

The first Palestinian professor hired as part of Schill’s deal with the activists, which Northwestern has since scrubbed from its website, was Mkhaimar Abusada, an academic who serves on the boards of two purported human rights organizations—the Independent Commission for Human Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights—that maintain close ties to terrorists. The former has praised Hamas and met with the terror group’s leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh, while the latter is led by a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine member and has other terrorists on its payroll.


Why Jew-Hatred Isn’t Just ‘Anti-Semitism’
This modern form draws from Western Marxism. When classical Marxism failed to deliver revolution in the West, its theorists shifted from economic class struggle to cultural and identity-based struggle. The oppressor/oppressed binary became the organizing principle of left-wing thought. Over time, this framework detached from economics entirely and evolved into a moral sorting system: certain groups are inherently oppressed, others inherently oppressive. Into this structure, the Palestinian cause was inserted as the perfect symbol of the oppressed, and Israeli Jews were assigned the role of the oppressor. The facts of Jewish history—millennia of indigeneity, diaspora exile, return, and survival—were flattened into a narrative imported wholesale from Western academic theory. The complexity of the Jewish people was reduced to a single ideological role.

In every era, Jews are cast as hidden manipulators—but always to excuse someone else’s failures. Anti-Judaic hatred blamed Jews for resisting “truth” when the real issue was Christian and Muslim existential anxiety. Anti-Semitic hatred accused Jews of corrupting nations when it was Europe’s own political, economic, and social breakdowns that needed a scapegoat. And today’s anti-Zionist hatred claims Israel secretly controls U.S. policy when, in reality, America’s strong support for Israel comes mostly from tens of millions of pro-Israel Christians acting openly and democratically. The terms shift, but the pattern doesn’t: others falter, others fear, others fracture—and Jews are blamed for it.

This is also why our modern -phobe vocabulary matters. Terms like transphobe, homophobe, and Islamophobe often medicalize disagreement by labeling opponents irrational. The charge is frequently misused, but in the case of Jew-hatred, the underlying dynamic truly is irrational fear: an enduring, cross-civilizational panic that Jews possess mysterious, outsized, or hidden influence. In this one case, the “phobic” descriptor is not an exaggeration, it is a diagnosis.

When we place anti-Judaic, anti-Semitic, and anti-Zionist Jew-hatred side by side, they initially appear distinct; one theological, one racial, one political. Their languages differ, and their targets shift. Yet as soon as we trace their internal logic, a deeper continuity emerges. That continuity has a name: conspiratorial Judeophobia—the ancient belief that Jews secretly orchestrate the world’s problems, no matter the era, ideology, or vocabulary.

Jew-hatred mutates as intellectual fashions shift, but the conspiratorial structure remains constant. We are not confronting three isolated ideologies; we are confronting one psychological impulse that keeps reinventing itself. Understanding that shared root is the first step toward confronting all three forms at once.
Australia’s Jews face lurking antisemitism after October 7 in a once 'goldene medina'
Australia's shift in anti-Israel policy a 'death by a thousands cuts'
WHILE APPRECIATIVE of many of the domestic efforts of the Australian governments, Leibler said the shift in foreign policy toward Israel has been disconcerting.

“There’s been a very noticeable shift in policy from the Australian government, really from before October 7,” said Leibler. “And it’s been slow, and it sort of, in some ways, felt like death by a thousand cuts.”

Australia’s August 11 announcement of intentions to recognize a Palestinian state set Canberra-Jerusalem ties into a tailspin, leading to an exchange of insults, including personal attacks on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese by his counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu. Leibler doesn’t think that such types of comments are productive.

“I think what we need to do is deal with these issues on their merits. And... we have legitimate criticism to make of these shifts in policies, and that’s where we should focus.

“The government has made several decisions which we fundamentally disagree with, but we also have to recognize that immediately after October 7, they were actually very strong, and they came out very strongly that Israel has a right to defend itself, Hamas has to be removed from power, the hostages must be released.

“And then we saw this sort of slow descent and increasing initially with increased focus on humanitarian aid. And then, I think, eventually, while their positions never really fundamentally changed vis-à-vis the role of Hamas or release of hostages, it was a question of rhetoric and emphasis. And what we heard was this constant focus on humanitarian aid, which is fine,” said Leibler. “One can be a supporter of Israel’s right to exist and express concern about the suffering of innocent Palestinians. Where we might disagree is where the moral blame lies for that suffering. But I think the government, and probably because of local political pressures, got that balance fundamentally wrong.”

Leibler also thought the government made a mistake when MK Simcha Rothman was denied entry into Australia on August 18, ostensibly due to the rhetoric that he used. Leibler said that one can disagree with Rothman’s positions and remarks, but banning a sitting democratically elected official when other far worse actors had been permitted entry was hypocritical. The decision also had a cooling effect on other Israelis, with a message that the country was not welcome to Israeli visitors.

“That basically sends us a message that Jewish life in Australia is not secure, because we all have friends, family, relatives in Israel. Our schools are entirely, and youth movements are entirely, dependent on shlihim [emissaries] and educators coming to Australia,” said Leibler.

For the Australian Jewish community, which is “overwhelmingly Zionist and connected to Israel,” it’s another concern as the uncertainty grows about the trajectory of the country, and what lies just beneath the surface.
Buildings defaced with antisemitic graffiti in Bondi Beach, Australia
Antisemitic graffiti has been sprayed on buildings and bollards at North Bondi in Sydney, local media reported on Saturday.

Police cordoned off the area to investigate the incident. Officers advised locals to avoid the area, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

The Jewish Australian Association, a membership-based community organization guided by “center-right Australian values,” as stated on its website, posted images of the vandalism on X, writing that “Bondi Beach [was] hit by wave of antisemitic graffiti.”

It added that the New South Wales police were “hunting for suspects.”

It was not initially clear who was behind the graffiti-spraying. One photo captured a derogatory comment against the Israel Defense Forces.

The “J7 Annual Report on Antisemitism 2025” published in May found that Australia experienced a fourfold increase in documented antisemitic incidents in 2024—the steepest rise among English-speaking countries with available data.


Thousands of Israelis line up for appointment to obtain Portuguese citizenship
Thousands of Israelis waited in line outside of Cinema City Glilot in the central city of Ramat Hasharon on Friday morning to book an appointment with the Portuguese Embassy to receive citizenship or renew Portuguese passports.

A line stretched from the entrance of the complex down to its underground parking structure after the Portuguese Embassy announced that it would allow people to wait in person – without advance scheduling – to secure appointments for citizenship or renewing Portuguese passports in December and January.

The embassy announced last month that it would be holding a special “Old times are back” event, temporarily bypassing its chronically overloaded online appointment system.

In an announcement on the embassy’s Facebook page, it wrote that the event was “open to all Portuguese citizens.”

News of the opportunity spread quickly, drawing far more people than the venue could comfortably accommodate, with people waiting in line all day long. Many arrived before dawn in hopes of getting a slot, while others turned back after seeing the immense wait.

According to a post on the Embassy’s Facebook page following the event, “thousands” of citizens were helped and “no one was left unattended.” Thousands of people wait in line to schedule an appointment at the Portuguese Embassy in central Israel, November 28, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)

Portugal recently announced that, starting in May 2026, Portuguese passports will be extended from five to 10 years. However, those who lined up on Friday are still expected to receive five-year passports under the current rules.

The surge of Israeli applicants for Portuguese citizenship began after Portugal passed its “law of return” in 2015, allowing the descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews who were affected by the 16th-century Inquisition to apply for nationality.




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