Leftist Knesset members were outraged on Wednesday evening following the Education Ministry's decision to disqualify a novel depicting a romance between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man from being taught in Israeli high schools.
Dorit Rabinyan's "Gader Haya" (known in English as "Borderlife") was rejected because of the need to maintain "the identity and heritage of students in every sector" and the belief that "intimate relations between Jews and non-Jews threatens the separate identity."
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