California State University plans to reinstate its overseas study program in Israel this fall. Cal State came under considerable internal and external criticism last October when it abruptly notified 11 students — already enrolled at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University — that the program had been terminated, and urged them to come home because of violence in the region.
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