JERUSALEM — Dozens of Palestinian doctors who work in Israel will be allowed to drive their own vehicles into the country from the West Bank, the Israeli agency dealing with Palestinian civilian affairs said on Tuesday. The decision, exempting the doctors from a blanket ban in force for 15 years, is the latest in a series of recent steps to relax constraints on Palestinians entering Israel.

The Israeli authorities have been easing some restrictions as a way of improving conditions for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, even as relations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders remain charged.

An Israeli spokesman estimated that as many as 100 doctors would be allowed to drive their cars, bearing Palestinian license plates, to their workplaces, but not anywhere else. The doctors make up a small fraction of the 55,000 Palestinians who have permits to work in Israel.

After the second Intifada uprising began in 2000, Israel banned all Palestinian vehicles from leaving the West Bank, one of a number of measures intended to keep militants and suicide bombers from reaching Israeli communities. The uprising mostly faded away a decade ago.