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(IsraelNN.com) The High Court ruled against a petition to prevent four Jordanian terrorists serving life terms in jail for the murder of IDF soldiers in 1990 and 1994 from being returned to Jordan.

--An Israeli Arab has been appointed as a director of the Jewish National Fund, which works to purchase land in Israel for Jewish settlement.  A Jerusalem District Court approved the appointment despite an appeal by several members of the JNF’s Zionist Executive Committee, who said that the appointment of a non-Jew to a directorship should be discussed by the JNF General Assembly.