WADSWORTH, Ohio - Israel has released an Ohio college professor it had accused of spying, his wife said Sunday.
Ghazi Falah, a geography professor at the University of Akron, had been jailed since July 8, when he was arrested after taking photos of Israeli installations along the northern border. Falah is known in academic circles for his writings on the borders of Israel and a future Palestinian state.
Israeli authorities in the United States have said they suspected him of spying for hostile forces, but they had not specified the enemy. Falah's lawyer in Israel said Falah was accused of spying for Hezbollah and Iran.
An Israeli court ordered Falah released …
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