Education Minister Faces Backlash Over Pre-Election Campus Segregation Appointments
Summarized from Haaretz English by baba
Education Minister Yoav Kisch is pushing to appoint new members to the Higher Education Council two weeks before Israel's election, defying the attorney general's guidance. University heads are calling the move an illegal "power grab" aimed at implementing a law allowing gender segregation on campuses. The appointments follow resignations from council members protesting the segregation legislation.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- Education Minister Yoav Kisch is pushing to appoint new members to the Higher Education Council.
- The move occurs two weeks before Israel's general election.
- University heads are calling the appointments an illegal 'power grab'.
- The appointments are intended to implement a law allowing gender segregation on campuses.
- Several council members resigned in protest of the segregation law.
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