World IN BRIEF : ISRAEL : 7 American Jews Are Denied Entry

Seven American Jews, including a New York rabbi, were cited as security risks and barred from entering the country by officials still reeling from the assassination last month of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Interior Ministry said Rabbi Abraham Hecht, 73, of New York had given a religious justification for killing Rabin only months before the killing, although he apologized in a letter to Rabin days before the assassination. The six others included Cohen Bizad of Los Angeles, identified as a supporter of extremist groups outlawed by Israel.