By ILAN BEN ZIONApril 8, 2021 GMT
JERUSALEM (AP) Israel’s top court on Thursday upheld a Cabinet minister’s decision to temporarily block a prominent academic from receiving the country’s highest honor after he called on the EU to halt funding for an Israeli university located in the occupied West Bank.
The ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court drew accusations that the country’s leaders are trying to stifle critics.
Oded Goldreich was nominated for this year’s Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science by a panel of judges. But shortly after the nomination was announced, nationalist groups called for his disqualification, claiming he supported the Palestinian-led international grassroots boycott movement against Israel.
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