The late Palestinian national poet will continue to haunt Israel
Mahmoud Darwish insists on mentioning what Israelis don’t want to acknowledge: A great sin took place here when the State of Israel was founded in 1948.
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Israel Blocking Plan to Double Water Supply to West Bank
Some government agencies are keen to increase supply to both settlers and Palestinians, but politicians are putting up obstacles. Either way, the Palestinians are ending up with much less.
Israel to give Arab teacher trainees in Galilee half the budget of Jewish peers
In addition to incentivizing trainee teachers to study subjects that are in high demand like mathematics, Education Ministry cuts budget for Arabic-speaking teachers to be.
Israeli University Nixes Decision to Grant Prize to Breaking the Silence
The anti-occupation NGO was to get a prize for Jewish-Arab understanding until Ben-Gurion University’s president overturned her department head’s decision.
Palestinian city parched after Israel cuts water supply
Chickens and gardens in Salfit die of dehydration, and factories are shut down in an effort to conserve water; ‘We woke up one morning to an empty reservoir,’ the mayor says. ‘Had we known ahead of time that the water would be cut off, we would have stocked up.’
Backtracking on past decision, Israel refuses to recognize Palestinian university’s degrees
Recognition of degrees from Al-Quds University would increase nursing graduates’ salaries, make them eligible for promotions and enable them enter certain job tenders.
Israel Admits Cutting West Bank Water Supply, but Blames Palestinian Authority
Israel says region’s intense heatwave combined with Palestinian Water Authority’s refusal to approve additional infrastructure had led to ‘old and limited pipes being unable to transfer all the water needed.’
Israel Asks Culture Institutions to Declare if They Hold Performances in Settlements
Culture Minister Miri Regev begins implementing new criteria for funding cultural institutions.
Only BDS can force Israel to prove it’s a democracy for its Arab citizens too
When Michael Karayanni was appointed law school dean, Isaac Herzog hailed it as ‘break[ing] another glass ceiling for Israel’s Arabs’. But one academic’s success can’t erase Israel’s institutionalized racism directed at its Arab citizens.
Israel Prize winner donates cash award to Israeli group that helps Palestinians
Hebrew University Prof. David Shulman will receive the prize on Thursday for his research into languages and culture in south India.