Sheik Ahmed Salah, who heads the northern branch of the Israel Islamic Movement, has been barred from leaving the country for one month. The order was given based on evidence that he was planning to meet with terrorist officials abroad. The order may be extended for up to six months.

The order was signed by Interior Minister Gideon Saar after evaluating the intelligence information against Salah.

Salah has been imprisoned in the past for his role in fundraising and channeling money to Hamas to assist the organization to continue carrying out terror attacks.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)