Israel granted citizenship to members of its former allied militia, the South Lebanon Army. In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Knesset ratified a bill from Labor legislator Yitzhak Herzog naturalizing thousands of SLA soldiers and their relatives who fled to Israel as it withdrew from its security zone in southern Lebanon in May 2000.
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