Israel named the first Arab judge to sit on its Supreme Court. Abdel Rahman Zuabi will fill one of the 14 seats on the court, on a temporary basis, beginning in a year’s time. The judge served on the five-member commission that investigated Baruch Goldstein’s murder of 29 Palestinians in a Hebron mosque in 1994.
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