Israel’s Knesset passed a law Wednesday preventing legislators and diplomats from traveling to enemy states. Under the new law, the prime minister or interior minister would have to give approval for visits to such countries as Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen.
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