The announcement by the Ministry of Education, according to which a final decision has not yet been made regarding the awarding of the Israel Prize in the field of mathematics and computer science research, tried to ignore what was happening in closed rooms and the committee’s decision to award the prize to Prof. Oded Goldreich. Tonight (Wednesday) on “News 12”.
The committee decided to award the prize to a professor from the Weizmann Institute for his work on computational complexity. Minister Galant revealed that Goldreich had signed an appeal to the German parliament to repeal the recognition of the boycott movement on Israel, the BDS, as an antisemitic movement. Galant also revealed that the professor also defined IDF soldiers as war criminals.
It should be noted that the High Court has previously ruled that the Minister of Education has no authority to interfere in the awarding of the prize, or to link such statements to the awarding of the prize.
“The state of affairs in which the professor receives the most prestigious award from one state and promotes the affairs of a movement that undermines the existence of Israel – is absurd and unacceptable,” Galant wrote in his address to the committee, demanding that the professor’s election be reconsidered. .
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