Article: ISRAEL: GOVERNMENT FREEZES PROGRAM THAT BRINGS JEWISH YOUNGSTERS TO ISRAEL.(Brief Article)

In a move that seems to indicate official mistrust in the new ceasefire with the Palestinians, Israel's ministry of Education, Culture and Sport has announced that it will freeze a program that brings Jewish youngsters to Israel. Plans to immediately suspend the Israeli government-funded Na'aleh program, which brings Jewish youngsters from throughout the world to Israel for high-schools studies, caught many by surprise. The program had been widely credited as a very successful effort to bring Jews into closer contact with Israel, the self-proclaimed Jewish State. Commentators pointed out that visiting Jewish youngsters have been fatalities in several Palestinian attacks ...

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