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The controversial law would prevent Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza from acquiring residency in Israel even after they marry Palestinians with Israeli citizenship.

Israel, a world leader in coronavirus vaccinations, reported its highest daily infection rate in three months as it scrambles to contain the spread of the new delta variant.

Israel has reached a compromise with Jewish settlers who rapidly established an unauthorized outpost in the occupied West Bank last month, officials and the settlers said Wednesday. Under the agreement, the settlers will leave by the end of the week. A survey will be carried out that the settlers say will prove the outpost was not established on land privately owned by Palestinians.

A constellation of Israeli political parties seeking to unseat longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are negotiating coalition agreements two days before a deadline.