The case was prompted by Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky, parents of Jerusalem-born U.S. citizen Menachem Zivotofsky. They sued in 2003 on behalf of their then-baby son for his place of birth to be listed as Israel instead of Jerusalem on his passport. The legal fight has bounced around the U.S. court system for a decade — an odyssey that included a previous trip to the Supreme Court that led to a ruling in 2012 on a more technical procedural issue. The Obama administration fears that allowing the passport to state Israel could be interpreted as an endorsement of the countrys hotly disputed sovereignty claims over Jerusalem. While the U.S. and international community recognize East Jerusalem as occupied Palestinian territory that Palestinians want to make the capital of their future state, Israel claims the entire city as its eternal, undivided capital. america.aljazeera/articles/2014/11/2/jerusalem-us-passport.html
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