For the past six years, Rabbi Dr. Ari Zivotofsky has been conducting a legal battle in the United States courts so that his son's passport can read "Jerusalem, Israel" instead of just saying "Jerusalem" as it does now.



Rabbi Zivotofsky discovered that Congress passed a law which says that the State Department has to write "Jerusalem, Israel" on passports of people born in Jerusalem if they so request – or, in the case of young children, if their parents request. However, President George Bush stated when he signed the law that he would not be carrying it out. When Rabbi Zivotofsky's son was born in Jerusalem, shortly after the law was passed, he asked to change the birthplace to "Jerusalem, Israel" – but was refused.

Zivotofsky and his wife Naomi decided to fight the system with the aid of attorneys Nat and Aliza Lewin – and that is where things get interesting. Listen to Yishai Fleisher talk to Rabbi Zivotofsky where the remarkable case stands now and ask "hey, where's my country?"