Israel is in charge of giving foreign spouses in the West Bank visas, a power these spouses say has been increasingly abused. They described being issued ever-shorter visas ranging from two weeks to six months instead of the usual one-year visa, dragging them into a near-constant process of visa renewals. “I think the entire policy is to empty Palestine of its brains, of its capacities, in a voluntary manner,” says Sam Bahour, of Right to Enter.