5,000th IDF Soldier to Convert to Judaism

by Maayana Miskin

The IDF's 5,000th conversion is expected to take place soon. 

Since opening a program for conversion into Judaism, the IDF has become a center of Jewish learning, with thousands of soldiers who are not Jewish according to Jewish law taking part in courses on Judaism and roughly 800 per year choosing to undergo conversion.

In total, 17,000 non-Jewish soldiers have learned about Judaism in the army's Nativ program, and almost 5,000 of them have converted to Judaism. Most Nativ participants have a Jewish parent or grandparent, but are not Jewish according to halacha (Jewish law), which states that Jewish status is passed through the mother.

Two-thirds of the soldiers who convert through Nativ are women, meaning that their children will be considered halachically Jewish.

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