[20180301]LSB10088_那么现在梅纳赫姆·齐沃托夫斯基（MenahemZivotosky）能重新发行护照上面写着“以色列”吗？.pdf

CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i So, Now Can Menachem Zivotofsky Get His Passport Reissued to Say “Israel”? Updated March 1, 2018 Does the Presidents proclamation recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel have any effect on what goes on the passports of U.S. citizens born there? It appears that the executive branch could change its policy to permit Jerusalem-born passport applicants to request to have their place of birth listed as Israel instead of Jerusalem. But if it does not, could Congress renew its efforts to permit U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem to identify their birth place as Israel on official documents, even though the Supreme Court earlier rebuffed these efforts? (For detailed background, see CRS Report R43773, Zivotofsky v. Kerry: The Jerusalem Passport Case and Its Potential Implications for Congresss Foreign Affairs Powers, by Jennifer K. Elsea.) Menachem Zivotofsky, a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem in 2002, was sufficiently interested in having his passport list Israel as his birth place that he asked the Supreme Court twice, and was denied for assistance in compelling the State Department to comp