Archive for the ‘Admission Committees Law’ tag
Closed Society: January 26, 2012
Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein supports the law permitting small communities to screen potential residents. This is response to a High Court of Justice appeal claiming the law is disciminating and humiliating.
Judiciary: 2 May, 2011
Contrary to the Admission Committees Law recently passed, admission committees will continue to operate in communities outside of the Negev and the Galilee as well.
Closed Society: 28 February, 2011
Not long before the vote on the admission committees bill, an additional change has been made to the wording of the bill: according to the proposal of MK Michael Ben Ari, in a settlement in which 80% of the residents agree, the settlement rabbi will be the final determining factor to make the decision and determine whether or not a candidate is worthy of being admitted to a settlement.
Closed Society: 23 December, 2010
The Ben-Gurion Universtity prohibits students from distributing flyers by the Solidarity Against Fascism organization on campus. The flyers criticize a series of proposed laws, including the Loyalty Law and the Admission Committees Law. The Dean of Students, Yaakov Afek, explained the prohibition by claiming that the publication constituted defamation. (Hebrew)
