@randrews I wonder how people having lived in Europe for thousands of years would retain any Middle East genes when it takes only a couple of hundred of years for ancestry to become replaced
@Diceynes Your idea that "it would show no ancestry to the land they claim..." they approve them for research projects so they don't seem to be afraid of publishing the results. It's not exactly a secret that Israel was founded in 1947. I'm not sure what you're insinuating they're trying to hide here.
@Diceynes The bottom paragraph, right there, all the exceptions. Medical purposes, they do DNA testing for citizenship, they do it for research projects. The law you're talking about was apparently written to ensure people's privacy by requiring that they be done by accredited labs, which as a side effect make OTC ones illegal, but the same places that sell them in the US will ship the sample kits there as well (I know because we did!)
@randrews some jewish news people said they were illegal without court approval. They are not illegal to be very pedantic and semantic but not permitted without court approval.
@Diceynes That law apparently dates to when all DNA tests were done with court approval, before the cost lowered enough that things like 23andMe / FamilyTreeDNA existed. And people apparently ignore it.
@Diceynes I didn't believe you so I did look it up and the first result is that they're not illegal. Even if they require the equivalent of a prescription, that's not the same as illegal, and it's also not keeping people from getting them since, as I said, enough Israeli customers to keep my former company afloat...
@randrews they must be court approved. It's illegal otherwise. They can break law. If you don't believe me look it up. You can find out with a quick google search probably have to scroll a little