After the publication of the journalist Ben Caspit yesterday (Sunday), who revealed that the Minister of Education Yoav Kish announced that the Israel Awards will not be distributed in the predetermined categories this year, because of the winning of Eil Waldman, the founder of Mellanox who lost his daughter at the nature party in Ra'im, known for his negative attitudes towards the government and the reform of the judicial system , former Minister of Education Limor Livnat spoke this morning on 103FM with Udi Segal and Anat Davidov and commented on the controversial news.
"I do not 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. This can only happen under a government that decides to cut the budgets of youth movements, the budgets of public libraries, anything that smacks of culture, any Something that smacks of academia, not only foreign to her but doomed in her eyes. How can it be that this is about priorities?"
Livnat continued and claimed: "This is not a government that has priorities, this is a government whose priorities are really only in areas that touch the very, very narrow world that Smotrich Laban Gabir will understand. In one of Netanyahu's recent speeches, statements, since the war, he belittled and mocked, And this is not something that is new to me. He never understood why I was asking for another budget for culture, he said to me, 'Why are you asking for the budget for culture? They will not vote for us', this is very suitable for him, and certainly for his partners. That's why I'm really bursting When I hear, even before Ben Caspit revealed the reason for it."
Minister of Education Yoav Kish at the Education Committee's discussion ahead of the opening of the school year, August 14, 2023/Photo processing, Yonatan Zindel/Flash 90
Limor Livnat at a demonstration against the legal revolution, Kaplan Tel Aviv, March 4, 2023/Reuven Castro
"I am looking at this case of Persi Israel, and I have already mentioned the fact that they take the students of the pre-military preparatory schools and take them out of there, but do not touch the Hesder Yeshiva students, who are not taken to serve full service, I am not even talking about the ultra-Orthodox, you can just explode. I'm exploding," she was indignant and added: "The issue of the conscription law is an issue that has been going on for many years before the High Court, and of course in various committees.
This issue rolls and rolls, and breaks down and breaks down, and nothing really happens."
She further explained that "the High Court finds all kinds of things, it sends the issue to the Knesset once again, that the Knesset will legislate, and the Knesset will not really legislate because there are always the ultra-Orthodox who are in such a coalition or Otherwise, certainly at the moment, the right is full of Netanyahu. Therefore, in my estimation, nothing will happen. After all, they will not go to recruit by force, I am also not in favor of recruiting by force."
"We had to get to a place where everyone is required, both ultra-Orthodox and Arabs, to serve some kind of national service. Whether it's service in the army or national service of any kind. Some kind of national service, every Israeli citizen must serve," she concluded.
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