Where is Jerusalem?

This has been an issue for quite some time in the U.S. Now it seems Canada has also jumped on the bandwagon. (via Beryl D.)

Israeli Canadian Dan Drori is adamant.

He has no intention of complying with a federal government request to relinquish his passport inscribed with the placeline “Jerusalem, Isr” (Israel).

“There’s nothing that would make me return it,” said Drori, a 20-year-old first year student in computer management at York University.

He was referring to a recent decision by Passport Canada recently to retrieve Canadian passports marked in error with this notation.

Canada’s policy is not to issue passports identifying Jerusalem as part of any country until its status is cleared up by Israel and its Arab neighbours in peace negotiations.

But such political matters are irrelevant to Drori, whose family settled in Jerusalem after immigrating from Yemen in 1948.

“Jerusalem, Israel, is where I was born. I’m going to keep this passport. It’s not right. If someone was born in Toronto, it has to say Toronto, Canada, and not just Toronto. I was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and that’s what my passport should say.”

Absolutely.