JERUSALEM, March 17 (JTA) — A group of 14 Israeli high school students returned from a trip to Malaysia, an Islamic state in southern Asia that does not have diplomatic ties with Israel. The students, who are studying Arabic and Islamic culture, said they had been invited by the prime minister to see “another side of Islam.”
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