The Education Ministry on Thursday backed away slightly from its disqualification of a novel depicting a love story between an Israeli and Palestinian which it earlier deemed inappropriate for study by high school students, Haaretz reported.
At the same time, Education Minister Naftali Bennett unequivocally backed the ministry's decision to ban the book from the national curriculum, telling Channel 2 that exposing high school students to a book which "depicts IDF soldiers as sadistic war criminals" was not a national priority.
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