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Israel Bans Use of Palestinian Term 'Nakba' in Textbooks

Term describing 'catastrophe' of 1948 was introduced in Arab schools in 2007, under Labor education min.

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Israel will remove from school textbooks an Arabic term that describes its creation in 1948 as a "catastrophe", the Education Ministry said on Wednesday.

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