A Jewish Montreal woman says she was told by a Canadian passport office employee that she could not indicate Israel as her country of birth because it is “a conflict zone.” Article content

Anastasia Zorchinsky is a Canadian citizen but she was born in Kfar Saba, in central Israel. However, she says in a Nov. 13 video posted on X that the official told her because of the “political conflict we cannot put Israel in your passport.” Article content

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Alternatively, she was told she could have indicated her birth country as Palestine, and that Kfar Saba was one of several cities that was allegedly caught by this policy shift, including Jerusalem.

Moreover, Zorchinsky was told this was a country-specific restriction – only affecting Israel.

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