Some U.S. Presbyterian leaders challenged their church’s policy of divesting from Israel. Completing a five-day fact-finding mission throughout Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Monday, a group of 11 Presbyterian leaders said the current policy of divesting the church’s $7 billion pension fund from Israel is flawed and called for the 2004 decision to be rescinded at a general assembly scheduled for next month in Birmingham, Ala.
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