Israel and the Vatican locked horns over the appointment of a new archbishop of the Galilee. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to prevent the Vatican’s replacing a church official in northern Israel considered friendly to the Jewish state with a Palestinian refugee whom Israel charges is a supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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