Alfalfa
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The scientists were dual citizens of Israel and the US, why is this so hard to grasp?
Because during their naturalization ceremony they renounced their israeli citizenship.
"However, the US government remained disdainful of dual citizenship for some time. To this day, candidates for US citizenship through naturalization are forced to renounce their previous citizenship at the United States naturalization ceremony.
The renouncing of ones previous citizenship is part of the oath that new US citizens must take, and failing to honor that oath could result in the loss of citizenship in the United States."
Is Dual Citizenship Allowed in the United States? | Legal Language Services
Not so fast there..."Based on the U.S. Department of State regulation on dual citizenship (7 FAM 1162), the Supreme Court of the United States has stated that dual citizenship is a "status long recognized in the law" and that "a person may have and exercise rights of nationality in two countries and be subject to the responsibilities of both. The mere fact he asserts the rights of one citizenship does not without more mean that he renounces the other", (Kawakita v. U.S., 343 U.S. 717) (1952). In Schneider v. Rusk 377 U.S. 163 (1964), the US Supreme Court ruled that a naturalized U.S. citizen has the right to return to his native country and to resume his former citizenship, and also to remain a U.S. citizen even if he never returns to the United States."
Kawakita v. United States
FindLaw | Cases and Codes
United States nationality law
"A citizen of Israel who also has a foreign citizenship is considered a foreign citizen under Israeli Security Service Law and is subject to a mandatory military service according to that law; he is considered a citizen of Israel regarding the criminal liability of Israeli civilians according to the Israeli Penal Law; and he is considered a citizen of Israel according to the Israeli laws of personal status, such as the authority jurisdiction of the rabbinical courts in the matters of marriages and divorces, according to the Israeli Rabinical courts jurisdictions law."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_nationality_law#Dual_citizenship
I never said dual citizenship was illegal, I said the naturalization oath still includes a renouncing of any other citizenship.
Go figure...