Page "Interfaith marriage" Paragraph 11

Samaritan men are allowed to marry women outside their community, on the condition that the wife accept the Samaritans ' practices.

This lies short of conversion and can qualify as interfaith marriage.

The decision to allow this kind of marriage has been taken in modern times to keep the Samaritan community from dying out and of genetic disease.

In addition, Samaritans interpret the ( Samaritan ) Torah to indicate that Israelite status is determined by the father, hence children of Samaritan men are considered Israelites, whereas children of non-Samaritan men are considered non-Israelite.