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Tel Aviv [Israel], May 5 (ANI/TPS): The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) barred a delegation of five wrestlers from flying to Istanbul for an Olympic qualifying event on May 9-13. The ban effectively ends the team’s hopes of competing in the Paris Olympics in August. “I’m disappointed, but I knew that this was going to be the decision,” said freestyle wrestler Ilana Kratysh, who in 2016 was the first Israeli woman to wrestle in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. “I hope that the Israeli association and the Olympic committee will demand from the world association to consider us and give us a fre…