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GENEVA (AP) - The governing council of the world's top particle physics lab has unanimously voted to accept Israel as a full member.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, says Israel will be admitted as a full member _ the first non-European country to achieve that _ once it formally notifies UNESCO that it has ratified the CERN Convention.
CERN's director general, Rolf Heuer, said in a statement Thursday that Israel, which obtained observer status in 1991 and then became an associate member in 2011, will become the 21st member nation to join as a full member.
The upgrade in status means it will have more access and say in the research, but also that it must contribute millions of dollars more each year.
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