Israel is not an immigration country, and thus individuals who are not born to Israeli citizens (entitled to citizenship from birth), can receive citizenship only on two grounds: by virtue of the Law of Return (i.e. a Jewish person, a child of a Jew, a grandchild of a Jew and their partners) or by virtue of marriage to an Israeli citizen, according to the Citizenship Law. The naturalization process (by virtue of marriage) grants the applicant temporary status while examining the truthfulness of the relationship and the couple’s center of life, until citizenship approval.
Any other situation (i.e. a woman not entitled to citizenship by virtue of the Law of Return or not married to an Israeli citizen), does not enable the acquisition of any status without lengthy and difficult procedures, and even then, the maximum status to be obtained will not be citizenship.
