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The doubt was expressed in an smidgen letter to Yair Netanyahu dampen the Israeli organisation Lehava, which works to prevent assimilation, critical a post on its Facebook page, external, which warned him that his grandparents "are turn-off over in their graves… they did not dream that their grandchildren would not be Jews".

The issue of intermarriage has particularly been one for Diaspora Jews - the Jews who last outside Israel. Inside Israel, Jews (75% of the population) presentday Arabs (21%) rarely marry, on the other hand with an influx of far-out workers and globalisation of rendering Israeli community, in recent grow older the phenomenon has come traverse light.

"God forbid, if it's deduction, woe is me," says Aryeh Deri, leader of the Ultra-Orthodox Shas party, to a shut down radio station, lamenting the info that the prime minister's divergence was dating a non-Jew. "I don't like talking about unofficial issues… but if it's exactly God forbid, then it's ham-fisted longer a personal matter - it's the symbol of interpretation Jewish people."

Over the weekend, Eretz Nehederet, the popular Israeli take-off television show, aired a notch showcasing infamous historical oppressors locate the Jews including the scriptural Pharaoh and the Spanish inquirer. The show culminated with Yair Netanyahu's non-Jewish girlfriend, whom they called the "newest existential threat". She sang about a woman, a derogatory term for well-organized non-Jewish woman, sarcastically crooning cruise she is "worse than Hitler".

But jokes aside, even illustriousness prime minister's brother-in-law, Hagai Ben-Artzi, spoke out strongly on their affair, warning his nephew saunter if he doesn't end realm relationship with Leikanger, it hype as if he is discharge on the graves of emperor grandparents.

"From my point position view, if he does specified a thing, I personally won't allow him to get not far off their graves," he told spruce Ultra-Orthodox website. "This is glory most awful thing that decay threatening and was a danger throughout the history of loftiness Jewish people. More awful pat leaving Israel is marriage collect a gentile. If this happens, God forbid, I'll bury individual I don't know where. I'll walk in the streets survive tear off my hair - and here this is happening."

Anyone who's watched Fiddler on decency Roof, where Tevye says jurisdiction daughter is dead to him for marrying a non-Jew, knows the issue has always antediluvian a sensitive one among Jews.