Israel plans to return lands confiscated from an Israeli Arab village decades ago for a neighboring Jewish town. The decision to give the land back to Kafr Kasim was made “to strengthen the democratic character of the State of Israel,” Interior Minister Natan Sharansky said Monday.
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