clipped from: themagneszionist.blogspot.com   

According to the article by Gish Amit, the Israeli government, since August 2008, has clamped down on the importing of all Arabic books from Syria and Lebanon. They based this new practice on a pre-state, 1939 mandatory regulation that forbade the importing of books from enemy states. (Presumably, that meant Nazi Germany.)


This mandatory regulation has never been enforced in Israel's existence – until last year.


According to the Haaretz article, 80% of the books needed for Israeli Palestinians, including children's literature, dictionaries, etc., are printed in Beirut and Damascus.

But the Disney books Bambi and Tigger are only printed in Lebanon. I checked. And, of course, there are well-known dictionaries.