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The following unedited text was released by the US Consul General in Jerusalem. Emergency Message – Jerusalem, September 21, 2011 The United States Consulate General in Jerusalem is prohibiting official
19-year-old Meir Ettinger, a student at the Old Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Shomron received an IDF administrative order barring him from entering Yehuda and Shomron for four months, citing “security
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