Israel’s Interior Ministry lifted a ban on the entry into Israel of an American rabbi, Abraham Dov Hecht of Brooklyn, N.Y. Hecht, whose remarks prior to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin were seen as a justification for such an act, was among several right-wing Jews barred from Israel after the slaying. Meretz Knesset member Amnon Rubinstein said he would petition Israel’s High Court of Justice to reverse the decision.
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