{"id":2517,"date":"2020-06-01T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ummforat.com\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2024-10-21T08:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:42:28","slug":"for-an-israeli-married-to-a-palestinian-no-family-reunification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ummforat.com\/en\/for-an-israeli-married-to-a-palestinian-no-family-reunification\/","title":{"rendered":"For an Israeli Married to a Palestinian, No Family Reunification"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2517\" class=\"elementor elementor-2517\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2e38454c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2e38454c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d4110ed\" data-id=\"d4110ed\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6326139d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6326139d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Even if Osama were to get an entry permit into Israel, how realistic would it be for us to move there based on temporary permits?<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>June 1, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I requested the meeting with the insurance agent to open a pension fund, but he insisted on trying to sell me disability, life, and supplementary health insurance.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cCoverage for organ transplants, operations abroad and medical evacuation flights will cost you just 88 shekels ($25 U.S.) a month for the entire family.\u201d His laptop screen had a table with the names of Osama, my partner, and our children, with an X next to each name.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cDelete my partner\u2019s name,\u201d I said. \u201cYou can\u2019t insure him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cHe\u2019s not a citizen?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cHow long have you been married?\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cSix years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThat\u2019s strange. My cousin married a British guy, also not Jewish, but after two years I\u2019m pretty sure he was at least a permanent resident.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt\u2019s different for Palestinians,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAre you sure? Sounds odd to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIn 2003 they passed a<span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/law.acri.org.il\/en\/2013\/04\/23\/temp-citizenship-law\/\">law<\/a><\/span> blocking family unification for Israeli citizens who marry Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cBut usually you can bring a spouse to Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cUsually you can. Unless the spouse is Palestinian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He appeared skeptical but deleted the X next to Osama\u2019s name and launched into an enthusiastic description of a pool in a hospital in Germany, where they infuse chemotherapy into the water in order to target the treatment to the area of the tumor and thus minimize damage to healthy cells.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t exist in Israel,\u201d he said proudly, relishing my recovery from the cancer that, thank goodness, I have yet to be afflicted with.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I was having a day of meetings, in and around Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. After the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr, the daycare centers and kindergartens were allowed to reopen in Palestine and thus \u2013parents could go back to work. In the morning, crossing through the Qalandia checkpoint on my way to Jerusalem, I realized how much we are living with the sense that the coronavirus has retreated. The soldier who checked my documents wore a face mask that had slipped down to her chin, and when she gave me back my ID card, her exposed fingers touched mine.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">After the meeting with the insurance agent, I continued to the Ministry of Interior office in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon. I went to the office of the deputy director, the one who had been decent with me during my first visit two years earlier, when I had come, Adam in the baby carrier strapped to my chest, to file an application for family unification \u2013 temporary permits that would allow Osama to enter Israel on the basis of a \u201chumanitarian\u201d exception. It turned out that deputy director had grown up on the same tiny street in Or Yehuda where my father grew up, he in the 1960\u2019s and my father in the 1950\u2019s. We talked about the street, which I knew well from visits to the dark and cluttered apartment where my grandmother continued to live until they put her in a nursing home. Maybe out of a sense of solidarity, the deputy director had given me hints about the justifications his superiors would employ to deny our application \u2013 thus allowing me to prepare counter-arguments. But on this second visit, his approach was more hostile.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI don\u2019t have any outstanding applications from two years ago,\u201d he said, typing my ID number into the computer. He looked at the screen and then said: \u201cYour application was rejected in 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThat was the first application. I submitted a second application in 2018, in which I addressed the denial of the first application.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAh, yes,\u201d he said. \u201cI see it. But it\u2019s not my file, it\u2019s with Arnon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAs deputy director, it should concern you that an application has been outstanding for two years without receiving any kind of answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAs deputy director, it should concern me that the application remain outstanding until it is fully processed, and that the clerk responsible continue his dedicated attention until the file is complete. Go talk to Arnon, it\u2019s not my file.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2587\" src=\"https:\/\/ummforat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/\u05de\u05e9\u05e8\u05d4-\u05d4\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd-2017-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<figcaption>Israeli Interior Ministry. The laws grant citizenship to Jews and their descendants but ban most Palestinians from obtaining status in Israel. Credit: Umm Forat<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I waited outside Arnon\u2019s office until the door opened.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cMy name is Umm Forat, and I met with you two years ago, when I submitted an application for family unification.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cOh, yes, Dr. \u2026 Dr. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I was surprised that he apparently remembered us. \u201cFahed. Dr. Osama Fahed. Since then, I\u2019ve been sending you reminders by email and registered mail, trying to get in touch by phone, and I haven\u2019t gotten any response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThat\u2019s right, I think I got something from you a few months ago. I passed it on.\u201d He typed my ID number into the computer. A few minutes passed.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI\u2019ll check and get back to you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cCould you at least tell me at what phase the application is? It\u2019s been two years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThere are all kinds of evaluations \u2026 I\u2019m not sure how much I\u2019m allowed to say. To tell you the truth, this is the only application that I have handled, for giving status to a Palestinian spouse. We don\u2019t get a lot of these in this office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Outside, the sun had started to set. It was a pleasant day, almost hot. I missed balmy Tel Aviv evenings, without the coolness of the hills of Ramallah. I continued to a work meeting inside Tel Aviv, using Waze to circle around the traffic. Still, it took me ten minutes to drive the kilometer and a half from the northern end of Rothschild Boulevard to its southern end. Before I moved in with Osama in the Ramallah area, I had lived in south Tel Aviv, and I used to cross Rothschild Boulevard on morning runs or, later in the day, on rollerblades, enjoying the pleasant ride under the Ficus trees. I tried to imagine myself strolling along the boulevard with Osama, Forat and Adam, like the families I used to pass when I was still single. Forat and Adam would go nuts over the fountain at the end of the boulevard. Maybe I would buy them chocolate pizza at Max Brenner, the chocolate restaurant that I lived above for two years. If I were to tell Forat there\u2019s a restaurant where she can order chocolate soup, she wouldn\u2019t believe me.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Even if Osama were to get an entry permit into Israel, how realistic would it be for us to move to Tel Aviv based on temporary permits, that are renewed or are not renewed, that don\u2019t allow him to get health insurance or drive a car, and that expose him to the hostility that people here express toward Palestinians?<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I finished my last meeting. I didn\u2019t hurry. The children would be asleep, anyway, by the time I got home. I watched young couples holding hands and turning down Ahad Ha\u2019am Street to the Neve Tsedek neighborhood, maybe on their way to a walk along the sea or to celebrate the reopening of the bars. I felt a wave of longing, but I wasn\u2019t sure for what. For Tel Aviv? For life before children? For a way of life with Osama that, I guess, will not come to be?<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I decided to file an appeal in the Ministry of Interior\u2019s administrative tribunal, if only to get a response to our application. I took comfort in the fact that Tel Aviv has become too expensive to raise children in, anyway.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This post was also published at haaretz.com on June 1, 2020<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/palestinians\/for-an-israeli-married-to-a-palestinian-family-unification-is-forbidden-1.8886935\">https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/palestinians\/for-an-israeli-married-to-a-palestinian-family-unification-is-forbidden-1.8886935<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if Osama were to get an entry permit into Israel, how realistic would it be for us to move there based on temporary permits? 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