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Ben Gvir extends ban on family visits for security prisoners
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Illustrative: Nafha prison, in southern Israel, October 29, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir extends by another month a temporary measure preventing security prisoners in Israeli jails from receiving visits from family members.
Following the Hamas October 7 attack last year, Ben Gvir announced new restrictions on terror inmates in Israeli prisons, aimed at worsening their living conditions.
