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July 13, 2021

Why the Family-Reunification Law Matters

The Knesset didn’t renew a law that has prevented terrorism for two decades.

In Israel’s latest major political dust-up, the Knesset last week failed to renew a law that withholds automatic residency rights and citizenship from Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens. The law was first passed in 2003 and has been renewed annually since. Nadav Shragai explains the circumstances that gave rise to it in the first place:

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