Nativ is the most simple giyur program. Run by the IDF rabbinate, it offers conversion to Judaism in less than half a year—which is below even Reformist “Allah Akbar” standards. Not that the idea is entirely bad: presumably, the people who serve in the IDF come really close to joining the Jewish nation.
Nativ published some shocking figures. In its seven years of operation, about 7,000 soldiers entered the program…but only 3,100 passed the most simple conversion imaginable. Indeed, after the government dropped nationality and religion from all the official documents, Israeli Slavs have little reason to become Jewish.
Government officials routinely slam the Orthodox Rabbinate for its “inability” to convert the hundreds of thousands of Slavs the government allowed into Israel.




