Israel backed off from a plan to confiscate Palestinian-owned land in Jerusalem. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz ordered the government to rescind a decision made last June under which it would implement the 1950 Absentee Property Law and claim lands in eastern Jerusalem whose Palestinian owners fled during past wars.
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