Jerusalem - An man who fled Great Britain after pleading not
guilty to seven counts of sexual assault on multiple children has joined a very
short list of people denied Israeli citizenship under the obscure “Law of
Return.”
The JC.com is reporting that Todros Grynhaus, 48, a former
teacher from Salford, left Britain using a fake passport, only to be arrested
in Jerusalem in February.
Invoking the rarely used Law of Return, which contains an
exemption allowing the Israeli government to deny citizenship to a person
deemed a danger to the public welfare, Israeli Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar
rejected Grynhaus’ application for citizenship earlier this week.
Only two other men have ever been denied citizenship under
the Law of Return.
Legendary American mobster Meyer Lansky was returned to the
U.S. in 1970 for tax evasion, and American activist Victor Vancier, a devotee
of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Kach party, was deported in 1994.
An attorney for Grynhaus said he plans to appeal the
minister’s decision to the Israeli Supreme Court.
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