Israel said it would resume ties with the British Broadcasting Corp. Foreign Ministry officials told Ha’aretz that Israel would lift its ban on the BBC after the broadcasting giant announced it had named an ombudsman to oversee its Middle East coverage and said it was committed to objectively reporting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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