ID card (Israel)

The Israeli ID

Te'udat Zehut ( Hebrew תעודת זהות ) is the Israeli identity card described in the Identity Card Carrying and Displaying Act of 1982 . Anyone living in Israel who is 16 years of age or older must carry this ID with them and show it to an authority upon request.

content

The card is laminated and has the following content:

Identity number
First and Last Name
Country of birth (although Palestine under the British Mandate and Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are also referred to as "Israel")
Name of the father
name of the mother
Date of birth (according to the Gregorian ; for Jews also according to the Jewish calendar )
“Nation” or “ethnic group” (Hebrew le'om לאום, Arabic. Qawmīya قومية, only for ID cards issued before 2005; e.g. “Jewish”, “Arabic”, “Bedouin”, “Druze” or "Circassian", the entry "Israeli" at this point is prohibited during the British mandate was this category in English "race" [ ". race "]).
gender
Place and date of issue
Passport photo

An appendix contains the following information:

current home address
previous residential addresses
earlier names
nationality
Name, date of birth and identity number of the spouse and children

Since July 2013, the ID cards also contain a chip with biometric data (portrait photo and fingerprints ).

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Court: There is no Obligation to Present an Identity Card upon a Policeman's Request , Revital Hovel, Haaretz , December 5, 2011, Retrieved April 11, 2013 (in Hebrew).

↑ Amendment 54, Article No. 74 of the Electoral Act approved by the Knesset on December 5, 2005.

↑ Remarks : Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Jerusalem area, Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv, Aviv Towers in Ramat Gan and others.

↑ literally "people, nation" (Lavy 1975), in contrast to esrachut אזרחות "citizenship."

^ Literally "Nationalism, Volkstum" (Wehr 1977).

↑ Even after this entry has been abolished, non-Jews can easily be recognized by the fact that their identity documents do not contain their date of birth according to the Jewish calendar.

^ Aaron Kalman: Supreme Court rules against 'Israeli' ethnicity on ID . Times of Israel , October 3, 2013; Ben White: Court denial of Israeli nationality reinforces discrimination ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Middle East Monitor , Oct. 7, 2013; Jonathan Cook : Lawsuit challenges Israel's discriminatory citizenship definition . Electronic Intifada April 6, 2010; ders .: Court nixes push for 'Israeli nationality' , Al Jazeera , October 18, 2013. @1@ 2

[1] Court: There is no Obligation to Present an Identity Card upon a Policeman's Request , Revital Hovel, Haaretz , December 5, 2011, Retrieved April 11, 2013 (in Hebrew).

[2] Amendment 54, Article No. 74 of the Electoral Act approved by the Knesset on December 5, 2005.

[3] Remarks : Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Jerusalem area, Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv, Aviv Towers in Ramat Gan and others.

[4] terally "people, nation" (Lavy 1975), in contrast to esrachut אזרחות "citizenship."

[5] Literally "Nationalism, Volkstum" (Wehr 1977).

[6] Even after this entry has been abolished, non-Jews can easily be recognized by the fact that their identity documents do not contain their date of birth according to the Jewish calendar.