Times of Israel – Nov 29, 2025
Thousands of Israelis waited in line outside of Cinema City Glilot in the central city of Ramat Hasharon on Friday morning to book an appointment with the Portuguese Embassy to receive citizenship or renew Portuguese passports.
A line stretched from the entrance of the complex down to its underground parking structure after the Portuguese Embassy announced that it would allow people to wait in person – without advance scheduling – to secure appointments for citizenship or renewing Portuguese passports in December and January.
The embassy announced last month that it would be holding a special “Old times are back” event, temporarily bypassing its chronically overloaded online appointment system.
In an announcement on the embassy’s Facebook page, it wrote that the event was “open to all Portuguese citizens.”
News of the opportunity spread quickly, drawing far more people than the venue could comfortably accommodate, with people waiting in line all day long. Many arrived before dawn in hopes of getting a slot, while others turned back after seeing the immense wait.
According to a post on the Embassy’s Facebook page following the event, “thousands” of citizens were helped and “no one was left unattended.”
Portugal recently announced that, starting in May 2026, Portuguese passports will be extended from five to 10 years. However, those who lined up on Friday are still expected to receive five-year passports under the current rules.
The surge of Israeli applicants for Portuguese citizenship began after Portugal passed its “law of return” in 2015, allowing the descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews who were affected by the 16th-century Inquisition to apply for nationality.
The Portuguese government had announced plans to end the policy in December 2023, saying at the time that its purpose of reparation had been “fulfilled.” However, rather than fully abolishing the route, the law was revised to make citizenship for Sephardic descendants more restrictive and conditional, including demonstrating stronger ties to Portugal, such as residing in the country for at least three years.
Portuguese citizenship has a wide-ranging appeal for Israelis, including the freedom of movement that comes with a European Union passport. Portugal has lower taxes and a lower cost of living than Israel, although its income levels are also proportionately lower. Some Israelis are drawn to the more relaxed admission rates at public universities in Europe and the lower tuition costs for EU nationals.
Demand has intensified since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks, as many Israelis have sought a second passport for added security in a period of heightened instability, which has also seen tens of thousands of Israelis leaving the country.

Another little place, like Cyprus. Easier to wrest eventual control.
Small places also probably easier to shame a protesting population.
The ‘Fable of the Ducks and Hens’ by George Lincoln Rockwell says it all. If the Portugese allow them in, they will regret it.
So it is not by chance that the crypto jew Harry Windsor and his octoroon wife have bought a residence in Portugal recently.
The Windsor sons were circumcised on orders of the Queen…..the question is when did they take over the British monarchy.King Charles certainly looks the picture!
The Sephardic Jews did not originate in Portugal they are from the Middle East. Back in the around the medieval era they were kicked out of Portugal and many other countries because they behaved in evil ways. However, I do not blame these civilized Jews to immigrate to other countries for peace shakes. Hopefully, they will not take over the country and make its indigenous citizens as prisoners and slaves as they have done to the indigenous Palestinians.
Great, destroying another country.
They are taking over Christian and formerly Catholic countries one by one. If this cancer turns out to be terminal, the world will have lost its last and greatest chance to live in safety and mutual respect.
Back to (some of) their implanted roots in the chosen world is a wandering Jew tradition as a decent Jew should NEVER be affiliated to 2 or 3 or plenty more countries alone.
yes, they come with big money in every european
country this filth + native goyim will have no chance
to compete with their tribal mafia nepotism . and the
states are greedy for their money + slick brains .
goyim are unable for tribal mafia nepotism + therefore
will disappear like once the Neanderthal .
i like phylis da costa
drivers paid £25 ‘per migrant’ to take them from London to Kent
Story by Callum Cuddeford • 15h •
London taxi drivers were paid £25 ‘per person’ to take migrants to lay-bys in Kent so they could be smuggled.
Madjid Belabes, 53, made £287,000 from the plot; hiring a team of drivers to take men to pick-up locations where they were taken by lorries in order to sneak over the French border.
back and forthWhile Belabes said he was paid £150-£180 per trip, Said Bouazza, who was used once, said he was paid £70 – the same amount as Mohamed Mabrouk, who made eight trips. Samir Zerguine said he was paid £25-£40 per person for his 14 trips, but it is unclear how many people he transported in total back and forth
In one incident in February 2023, 58 migrants members id 2 criminal gangs who were Moroccan, Tunisian and Algerian nationals managed to get as far as France before they were discovered, having then entered the UK.
6 Million jews
Holocaust artefacts now in Israel after auction cancelled
Story by DPA International Several Holocaust artefacts whose planned auction in Germany recently sparked outrage have now arrived in Israel, according to Israeli media reports.
They were acquired by a foundation in the port city of Haifa, which operates a Holocaust museum there, the Israeli news portal ynet reported on Monday. There should be no trade in items that bear witness to the memory of the Shoah and the suffering of the Jewish people,” said the head of the Yad Ezer L’Haver foundation, Shimon Sabag.
“The right place for these objects is in a museum, and in particular in the Holocaust Museum in Haifa, which is free to enter.”
I really hoped there would be an auction we could all buy something to remind us
OMG! The Khazars REALLY need to be given a large island and be forced to go there to spare us their satanic influence
No Dual Citizenship for kikes!
Oh “Promised Land” not workin out for ya?
wheres your loyalty to yahweh?
Potuguese like the Cypriots will turn on them when the gated communities spring up..
a portal to the EU…
WAKE UP EUROPE & KICK OUT THE UGLY KIKE!
Another missed opportunity for squads of Einsatzgruppen with shotguns, flame-throwers, hatchets, and tire irons to rampage through that crowd of (((Mordorians))).
BAD IDEA
VERY VERY BAD IDEA
So, what has Portugal done wrong?
@DANNY COHEN
I have some old shoes can I donate them ?
Liquidate (((their))) asses