By: Tovah Lazaroff – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com
Ari and Naomi Zivotofksy asked for a passport that recorded their son’s birthplace as Israel 18 years ago, but the US government would only say he was born in Jerusalem.
After their son Menachem’s birth in Jerusalem in 2002, Ari and Naomi Zivotofksy asked for a passport that recorded his birthplace as Israel, but they were granted the document only this Friday – some 18 years later.“
I am honored to receive this passport as a representative of the many American citizens who were born in Jerusalem, who can now have their official government documents reflect the fact that they were born in Israel,” said Menachem.
He spoke at a brief ceremony at the US embassy in Jerusalem, in which US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman officially handed him his passport, the first one ever to link Jerusalem with the State of Israel.