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Polish foreign ministry summons Israeli ambassador over student trip comments

FILE PHOTO: A general view at the photographs in a glass case after a news conference for the presentation "The Niemann Collection on the Holocaust and National Socialism" in Berlin, Germany, January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo

Poland's foreign ministry has summoned Israel's ambassador for Monday, a Polish deputy minister said on Friday, after the diplomat criticised the government for not allowing student trips from Israel to visit Holocaust memorial sites in Poland.

In July, Poland and Israel vowed to improve relations that had deteriorated after Warsaw introduced a law last year limiting the ability of Jews to recover World War Two properties, saying they would mutually restore ambassadors.

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