| By Kristen Stevens
Jerusalem - Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a 23-month-old boy will remain with his adoptive parents, the final decision in a year-long battle that featured tearful statements by two sets of distraught parents.
The high court reversed a lower court's decision to return the child to his biological mother.
The biological mother claimed she realised she was pregnant only in the eighth month, at a time when she was separated from the child's father. She gave up the baby up for adoption, but changed her mind when the boy was three months old.
The case provided a distraction from weightier issues like violence with the Palestinians and a planned pullout from the Gaza Strip, with radio and TV talk shows devoting hours of discussion to the topic and newspapers printing many tearful pictures of the parents, while protecting their anonymity.
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