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Education Minister Yoav Gallant, at the Ministry of Education in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Five of the eight winners this year of Israel’s most prestigious prize are protesting the government’s decision to withhold the award from a scholar over his political views.
Israel’s top court on Thursday upheld Education Minister Yoav Gallant’s move to temporarily block Oded Goldreich from receiving this year’s Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science over claims he supports the Palestinian-led international boycott movement targeting Israel, allegations he denies.
In a letter to Gallant, literature scholar Nitza Ben-Dov, filmmaker Michal Bat-Adam, bible scholar Yair Zakowitz, poet Nurit Zarchi and biochemist Eli Keshet lamented what they described as the politicization of the honor, according to the Kan public broadcaster.
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Presidents of Israeli universities have released a joint letter criticizing the government's decision to withhold the country's most prestigious prize from a scholar over his political views, saying it “severely harms free speech and free thought.” Israel’s top court on Thursday upheld the education minister’s move
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