Two months after leaving home for college in Jerusalem, Jacob Hanna was still seeking a place to live; some of his prospective landlords were reluctant to rent to a Palestinian. Undeterred, he found an apartment, earned his degree, and then headed to MIT. There, his research manipulating stem cells earned him job opportunities at NYU and Harvard. Instead, the 31-year-old plans to return to his native Israel to start a lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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