Some of the considerations are for fear of serious harm to the benefit of minors or future children in the family, due to the possibility of being labeled as bstrds that will cause damage to their fitness to marry in Israel according to Jewish law. There may be harmful consequences in the religious law of other religions as well. In addition, there is a need for a process that ensures informed consent to the test on the part of all subjects, and admissibility of the results in a relevant legal proceeding (alimony, inheritance, etc.). Therefore, It is prohibited to market in Israel kits intended for genetic self-examination - in any medical matter, as well as for testing family ties.
This means that any services to inspect familial ties based on DNA are unlicensed in Israel and may be deemed illegal and carry penalties.
When the law was enacted in 2000, there were no tests to find ancestry similar to what we have today. The law was made to address familial ties.
Quick summary: DNA testing privately is illegal. Only the state is allowed to do it.
This is kinda like going “no, killing someone is not illegal in the US” and then mentioning executions. It’s disingenuous as fuck.
No, but yes.
Brilliant.
okay so no DNA tests to uphold anti-miscegenation laws, because learning about ancestry could challenge social constructs of race, especially for Arab Jews
Let me get this straight: it’s basically Don’t Ask Don’t Tell but for the almighty, who will look the other way so long as you don’t know that you were conceived out of wedlock?
Deboonked
So basically, only legal when court ordered, like if there’s question on who a child’s parent may be?
If I can put on my tinfoil hat, doesn’t this explanation make it seem like the intent is to prevent people from looking into whether they were victims of the Yemenite Children Affair where Israel kidnapped a bunch of babies from Yemeni Jews and gave the kids away to random families?
There are so many dark aspects like this when you start thinking about it for a few minutes.
its not that women aren’t allowed to drive in afghanistan, its that they arent allowed to get a drivers license
I remember a couple decades back reading about a study that did a DNA comparison of native Jewish Israelis and Palestinians and found that’s practically no difference on a group level, and it pissed off Zionists. I wonder if the restrictions have something to do with that.
