Tel Aviv University students protest against lecturer who wrote obituary for terrorist. Dr.
Anat Mater called Walid Deka an "endless source of inspiration" Deka was involved in the kidnapping and murder of the soldier Moshe Tamm in 1984. Deka died earlier this week of cancer in prison at the age of 64, less than a year before he was supposed to be released in March 2025. The statement caused great anger among students at the university. Some of them called for the suspension of school until she was dismissed. The demonstration is not politically identified, organizers wrote. "It has nothing to do with right/left, Bibi/non-Bibi, Jew/Arab - this is a call to everyone who agrees that the public veneration of a person known for murder is a terrible incitement that goes beyond the limits of expression," they said in a letter to Mater. "A demonstration on Thursday in Antin Square - to fire Anat Matar!", reads the invitation to the protest.