Israel’s Interior Ministry recently rejected a request to convert three Ukrainian players on a local volleyball team. Israel Radio said officials were surprised the three women would seek to convert after playing in Israel for a short period and suspected they were interested in a “fictitious” conversion to enable more foreign players to join the team.
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