In an interview with Arutz 7, Shas MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, formerly chief Sephardic rabbi in Geneva, said that banning converts from the Jewish people was the wrong approach to stopping fictitious conversions. "We should be bringing new immigrants whose Jewish roots are questionable closer," he said.

Rabbi Amsalem said that recent discussions on the matter in the Knesset Constitutional Committee had prompted him to do research on the traditional Jewish approach to converts. The fruit of that research is a new book he has written, which, discussing the attitude of the great sages of the past to conversion, shows that "a conversion made by a proper Jewish court cannot be cancelled even if it turns out that the convert did not fulfill Jewish law properly." Rabbi Amsalem said that conversions made by Rabbinical courts headed by Rabbi Haim Druckman, which several Hareidi rabbis sought to cancel, could not be revoked, based on traditional Jewish sources.