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The Ministry of Interior in the State of Israel is one of Government offices that is responsible for local rule, citizenship
Citizenship

Citizenship refers to a person's membership in a political community such as a country or city. It has different legal definitions in different countries....
 and residency
Permanent residency

Permanent residency refers to a person's Visa status: the person is allowed to reside indefinitely within a country despite not having citizenship....
, identity cards (Hebrew: teudat zehut
Teudat Zehut

Teudat Zehut is the Israeli compulsory identity document, as prescribed in the Identity Card Carrying and Displaying Act of 1982:...
), and entry visas.

The Interior Ministry is often seen as a source of patronage for religious parties.

Staff wings
The Administration for Local Government and Administration

Importance
The duty of the interior minister has been always a desirable duty in every government in the history of Israel, and the reason for that is that the Ministry of Interior has many authorities and much intensirt, particularly in designing the figure of the State of Israel.

Responsible for the population administration, the Ministry of Interior responsible for the personality registrations and decides who can immigrate to Israel in the framework of the [Rule of Return], and who can become a citizen in the framework of the Rule of Citizenship.






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The Ministry of Interior in the State of Israel is one of Government offices that is responsible for local rule, citizenship
Citizenship

Citizenship refers to a person's membership in a political community such as a country or city. It has different legal definitions in different countries....
 and residency
Permanent residency

Permanent residency refers to a person's Visa status: the person is allowed to reside indefinitely within a country despite not having citizenship....
, identity cards (Hebrew: teudat zehut
Teudat Zehut

Teudat Zehut is the Israeli compulsory identity document, as prescribed in the Identity Card Carrying and Displaying Act of 1982:...
), and entry visas.

The Interior Ministry is often seen as a source of patronage for religious parties.

Responsibility fields


  • Providing citizenship
    Citizenship

    Citizenship refers to a person's membership in a political community such as a country or city. It has different legal definitions in different countries....
     and [permanent resident] status.
  • Issuing of entry visas and staying visas in the country.
  • Inhabitants administration: personal registrations.
    • Issuing of [identity card].
    • Personal registrations such as birth
      Birth

      Birth is the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring . The offspring is brought forth from the mother. Different forms of birth are oviparity, vivipary or Ovoviviparity....
      , marriage
      Marriage

      Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
       etc.
  • Licensing the ownership of firearms.
  • Local government, city council
    City council

    A city council is a form of local government, usually covering a city or other urban area, such as a town. The system of government has roots back at least to the Roman Empire....
    s and local councils
    Local council (Israel)

    Local councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being list of cities in Israel and Regional council ....
     supervision.
  • Elections.
  • Fire fighting and rescue services
    Israel Fire and Rescue Services

    The Israel Fire and Rescue Services is the Israeli state organization for Fire fighting. The organisation also provides rescue services from terror attacks, car accident and hazardous materials, along with Magen David Adom, the National Emergency Medical Services....
     and emergency services.
  • Associations.
  • Planning and building supervising.


Staff wings


The Administration for Local Government and Administration
  • Administration for Budgeting and Developing in the Local Authorities.
  • Wing for Inspection in the Local Authorities.
  • Administration of Planning.
  • Administration of Population.
  • Administration for Emergency Services and Special Tasks.
  • Commissionership of Fire-Fighting and Rescuing.
  • National Elections' Supervisor.
  • National Unit for Building Supervising.
  • Administration of Water.


Importance


The duty of the interior minister has been always a desirable duty in every government in the history of Israel, and the reason for that is that the Ministry of Interior has many authorities and much intensirt, particularly in designing the figure of the State of Israel.

Responsible for the population administration, the Ministry of Interior responsible for the personality registrations and decides who can immigrate to Israel in the framework of the [Rule of Return], and who can become a citizen in the framework of the Rule of Citizenship. In addition, the Ministry of Interior controls the status of permanent residents and issues visas to foreign workers.

Due to that, and due to its authority in the subjects of religion
Religion

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....
 and state
State

A state is a political Social contract with effective sovereignty over a geographic area and representing a population. These may be nation states, State or multinational states....
, the Ministry of Interior has become the main destination of parties
Party

A party is a gathering of persons who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, and recreation. A party will typically feature eating and Drinking#Alcoholic beverages, and often music and dancing as well....
 whose platform has a main part with these subjects (National Religious Party
National Religious Party

The National Religious Party was a List of political parties in Israel in Israel representing the Religious Zionism movement. Formed in 1956, at the time of its dissolution in 2008, it was the second oldest surviving party in the country after Agudat Yisrael, and was part of every government coalition until 1992....
, Shas
Shas

Shas is a List of political parties in Israel in Israel, primarily representing Haredi Judaism Sephardi Jews and Mizrahi Jews Judaism. Following the Israeli legislative election, 2006 in which Shas won 12 seats, it joined Ehud Olmert's coalition government and holds four cabinet posts....
, Yisrael BaAliyah, Shinui
Shinui

Shinui was a Zionism, secular and Anti-clericalism free market Liberalism worldwide in Israel. The party twice become the third largest in the Knesset, but on both occasions it was followed by a split and collapse; in Israeli legislative election, 1977 the party won 15 seats as part of the Democratic Movement for Change, but the alliance spl...
) that see the Ministry of Interior as a target and an excellent implement for executing their ideological outlooks in those subjects.

For the last years the Ministry of Interior has been criticized for arbitrary policies regarding foreign guest workers and Jewish converts. Interior bureaucrats are often accused of ignoring rulings by other state agencies and refusing to register converts as Jews. It has also been criticized by gun owners, firearms dealers and shooting clubs for arbitrary restrictive measures in restricting law-abiding citizens in owning firearms, while criminals continue to ignore gun laws.

In addition, The Ministry of Interior supervises all the local council
Local Council

A Local Council is a form of local elected government within the Districts of Uganda of Uganda. They were initially established as rebel support structures in the areas controlled by the National Resistance Army of Yoweri Museveni....
s and due to that it has the power to appoint many workmen. A part of the Interior ministers used that for appointing faithful men and giving jobs to the party center.

Interior Minister

Since the second intifada, the Ministry of the Interior has been exercising stricter control over the disputed territories, most notably through limitations placed upon visiting professionals and academicians from the United States and other western countries. By controlling visas the Ministry of the Interior can regulate international presence in the region and control international involvement with the Palestinians.

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