The Yacoub family in Lakeland, all U.S. citizens, has run into problems trying to leave Israel after a summer trip to visit family in the West Bank. Israeli authorities refused to let seven of the children return to the U.S. with their mother. Wedad Yacoub (back, right) was permitted to take three of her youngest children (front, left to right) Rany Yacoub, 10, Ameera Yacoub, 5, and Amani Yacoub, 3. |