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...months ago TIME commissioned the PORI Institute, a highly respected Tel Aviv public opinion research organization, to conduct a poll in the West Bank. PORI is directed by its founder Rafael Gill, 51, a sociologist with an M.A. from New York City's New School for Social Research. Since 1966 PORI has been surveying opinion on topics of current interest; its polls are regularly published by the independent newspaper Ha'aretz...
...publication of "statistical data" without prior permission, and two Israeli military regulations for the occupied territories. One of the Israeli rules banned publication of material of "political significance"; the other for bade "publishing, in writing or orally, praises, sympathy or support of a hostile organization." The Israeli authorities accused PORI of using "a member of a Palestinian Arab terrorist group" to canvass public opinion. They arrested that polltaker and confiscated some of his data. None of the seized material was used in tabulating the poll. Last week the Israeli government decided not to prosecute TIME. Pointing out that any violation...