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A piece of much-heralded legislation to grant Spanish citizenship to up to 3.5 million descendants of Jews expelled from the country in 1492 is about to end in failure.<\/em><\/p>\n

Spain: Law on Citizenship for Sephardic Jews Ends in Failure<\/h3>\n

Soeren Kern | Gatestone Institute<\/a> | August 19, 2019<\/p>\n

A piece of much-heralded legislation to grant Spanish citizenship to up to 3.5 million descendants of Jews expelled from the country in 1492 is about to end in failure: fewer than 10,000 Jews have been awarded Spanish passports ahead of an October 1, 2019 deadline.<\/p>\n

Spanish leaders promised that the law \u2014 which entered into force on October 1, 2015 for a period of three years and was extended for one additional year \u2014 would \u201cright a historic wrong\u201d and demonstrate that more than 500 years after the Inquisition began, Jews are once again welcome in Spain.<\/p>\n

The legislation, however, introduced<\/a> so many cumbersome bureaucratic hurdles to obtain Spanish citizenship that most prospective hopefuls appear to have been deterred from even initiating the application process.<\/p>\n

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