Sarat Kish: "Anything that smacks of culture is doomed in the eyes of the government" - Voila! news. Former Minister Limor Livnat attacked on 103FM the decision of Education Minister Kish to cancel the Israel Prizes in the fields of science.

"I don't remember, neither in my time nor in any other time, such an event," attacked the former minister. "The Israel Prize has never, as far as I know or remember, been a case in which a minister decided to cancel one of the categories. It simply did not happen," she said.