Israel's Supreme Court Chides Government for Ban on Study Abroad

Israel's Supreme Court joined a chorus of dismay over an Israeli army policy that bans Palestinian students from leaving Gaza to study abroad and asked the government on Monday to "reconsider the policy." Israel imposed the ban after the Islamist group Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in a violent uprising last year.

Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein told Israel's state attorney at a hearing that the ban seems "no less harmful to the Israeli interest because we have

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