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Hamas informer in Israel on lecture tour

By Amy Teibel
Published June 14, 2012 6:23pm ET
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Hamas informer in Israel on lecture tour
FILE - In this June 30, 2010 file photo, Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, walks into his deportation hearing held at the immigration detention center in San Diego. Mosab Yousef, who spied for Israel, has returned on a pro-Israel lecture tour in June 2012. Yousef published a shocking autobiography in 2010 in which he described his decade of service as a secret Israeli agent. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File) | Denis Poroy

JERUSALEM (AP) — The son of a Hamas founder who renounced his father’s militant group to spy for Israel has returned to the Jewish state on a pro-Israel lecture tour, an Israeli official said Thursday.

Mosab Yousef was invited by Druse Arab lawmaker Ayoob Kara, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party.

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