Israeli Court Seeks Review of Student Ban

Israel's Supreme Court recommended last week that the country's military reconsider its refusal to allow Sawsan Salameh, a 29-year-old Palestinian woman who lives in a village just east of Jerusalem, to enroll in a Ph.D. program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The three-judge panel's suggestion came at the end of the first hearing on a challenge to the army's policy of refusing to allow young Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to enter Israel for any

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