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“Israel prefers poverty and backwardness to enlightenment and contributing to society.”

Israeli students have had it. Thousands of them have hit the streets to protest continuing government stipends for yeshiva students, money dispensed even in the face of a recent High Court of Justice ruling that the stipends are discriminatory. As Haaretz writes:

[The stipend] is bad news for anyone who values equality and the rule of law… [The ongoing financial support] sends the message to university and college students, who do not receive benefits of which the income allowances are only a part, that Israel prefers poverty and backwardness to enlightenment and contributing to society.

The student government president at Hebrew University succinctly explains why so many university students are protesting: “We want to stop this disgusting law.”

Background here.

Margaret Soltan, October 27, 2010 1:37PM
Posted in: foreign universities

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