In a recent interview given to the Hebrew-written “Makor Rishon” newspaper, Tomer Moskowitz, the head of the Israeli Administration for Border Crossing, population and Immigration who is leaving his position this year declared that Israel is at risk of losing its Jewish majority. 

"The role of the Population and Immigration administration is to maintain the State of Israel as a Jewish state," Moskowitz said. "There are many bodies whose job it is to keep the state functioning and safe, but the Population and Immigration administration is the only body whose job it is to maintain the identity of the country. Once there is no Jewish majority here, there will be no Jewish state. Nothing else will be able to last if there is not a majority that wants to be here That this will be a Jewish state.”

תומר מוסקוביץ' מסכם כהונה סוערת כמנכ"ל רשות האוכלוסין וההגירה, ומקווה שבחורף הבא כבר לא נצטרך ויזה לארה"ב. "ישראל סובלת מלחצי הגירה משמעותיים מאוד, שחלקם, באופן אבסורדי, דווקא בגלל חוק השבות" @MamanRicky https://t.co/t51F8yroxi

— מקור ראשון (@MakorRishon) April 11, 2023

"We must be disillusioned," warns the outgoing CEO. "Today we live with a large majority of Jews in the State of Israel, but this majority is decreasing all the time. The State of Israel is under significant threat of losing its Jewish majority. The graph goes down moderately, but once it reaches a certain point it will crash. Once the non-Jews gain enough political power to influence elected officials, it will be impossible to control it. The State of Israel suffers from very significant immigration pressures.”

Moskowitz was born in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem, a graduate of the Bnei Akiva Merkaz branch and the Netiv Meir yeshiva, he also studied for one year at the Merkaz Harav Kook yeshiva and after that served four years in the army, as a soldier and an officer. 

After being asked in the interview about the long waiting lists to renew Israeli passports, Moskowitz made it clear that the most significant event in his tenure is not the passport queue saga but the war in Ukraine. "There is pressure for foreigners to enter Israel. They are not refugees," he states. "None of them came from Ukraine, from which there were no flights. They all came from safe neighboring countries, all of which were ready to take them in. Surprisingly, war is not a reason for refugees either. Refugees are a situation in which a person is personally persecuted. None of them had to come to Israel, but there was a great deal of pressure to bring them into Israel by external forces."

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Tomer Moskowitz
Director of the Israel Population and Immigration Authority
who spoke about 'The Challenges facing The Jewish State' pic.twitter.com/eCTPNvxi3a

— Yeshivat Har Etzion (@inthegush) December 12, 2022

Moskowitz made it clear in the interview that the growing Israeli-Arab population is not a threat to a Jewish state, but rather foreigners who seize an opportunity given to them to seek a better quality of life in the State of Israel.