HCJ Falls Short of Reversing Prize Denial to Communist Professor
While Israel’s High Court of Justice (HCJ) announced on Thursday, August 12, its unanimous rejection of the decision of former Education Minister Yoav Gallant to withhold the Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science from Communist Prof. Oded Goldreich, it did so in a non-binding fashion. Instead of unequivocally reversing Gallant’s decision to veto awarding the…