The law granting automatic Israeli citizenship to Jews everywhere is under attack, following the perceived increase in Russian immigrant crime.

“I propose that anyone who wants to come here as a Jew,” said former Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit, “should come and reside here for five years, take an oath of loyalty to the State, and only then receive citizenship.”

Minister of Immigration and Absorption Sofa Landver, who herself immigrated to Israel from Russia in 1979, lashed out against what she called “racist generalizations.”