(AP) Vanessa Gera - Israel on Saturday condemned Poland's approval of a law that restricts the rights of Holocaust survivors or their descendants to reclaim property seized by the country's former communist regime. The new law, signed by Polish President Andrzej Duda, establishes that any administrative decision issued 30 years ago or more can no longer be challenged, meaning that property owners who had their homes or business seized in the communist era can no longer get compensation. Both the U.S. and Israeli governments had strongly urged Poland not to pass the law.
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