In an unusual case, the Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday ordered the Interior Ministry to grant temporary Israeli status to a Syrian-born woman, the wife of a disabled IDF veteran, who converted to Judaism. The judge, Nimrod Flax, accepted the couple’s petition, ruling that the ministry’s rejection of their request to live in the Jewish state was “unreasonable in the extreme.” Flax cited the medical and mental state of the husband, Yair (a pseudonym requested for the couple’s safety), the conversion of wife Nur (also a pseudonym) to Judaism, the fact that she had severed ties with Syria and could not safely return there, and the lack of any other country where they could live together. He granted her temporary residence in Israel for a year, with the possibility of extension. The petition was submitted by their lawyer, Adi Lustigman, after the Interior Ministry repeatedly denied a request to give Nur Israeli status on humanitarian grounds.…