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Education Minister Yuli Tamir. (Archives) del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 02:26 19/10/2006 Ministers demand entry into Israel for Palestinian students By Yoav Stern and Akiva Eldar, Haaretz correspondents Education Minister Yuli Tamir and Culture Minister Ophir Pines-Paz demanded on Wednesday that Defense Minister Amir Peretz rescind the ban barring Palestinians studying in Israeli universities from entering Israel. Peretz promised to consider the ministers' demands. Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein expressed concern at the absence of an "exceptional framework" for dealing with requests for entry to Israel for educational purposes. Advertisement Rubinstein said that it is not as if thousands of Palestinian doctoral students are waiting to enter Israel, and in any case a sweeping ban on entry is liable to harm prospects of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation. "It is unacceptable to comprehensively ban entry to all students, without having specific intelligence regarding students that may pose security threats," Pines-Paz said. Pines maintains that the ban deals a severe blow to academic freedom in Israel, and could result in a boycott against Israel's academic institutions as well as spur international condemnation. The High Court of Justice on Wednesday recommended the government evaluate a request for entry made by Sawsan Salameh, a Palestinian student accepted to doctoral studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem but barred from entering Israel. This is despite the government policy that went into affect rougly one month ago, whereby all Palestinian students are barred from entering Israel and individual cases are not evaluated. Salameh and Access (Gisha), an association that advocates freedom of movement in the territories, petitioned the High Court against the decision barring her entry. The High Court recommended the government evaluate her request individually and respond to it within a week. The government announced in response that it will acede to the High Court's requested. Six university heads also asked Peretz to evaluate each student individually and allow students who do not pose a threat to enter Israel freely. The heads of the universities, Professor Danny Levitan of Tel Aviv University, Professor Yossi Ben Artzi of University of Haifa, Professor Aviv Rosen of the Technion, and Professor Yosef Yarden of the Weizmann Institute of Science, wrote Peretz that Israel's universities have a strict policy of opening their gates to anyone who meets their academic criteria without regard to gender, religion ethnicity or nationality. Court to discuss request to allow Israeli-Arabs into Gaza for holidays The High Court of Justice is scheduled to discuss on Thursday a petition submitted by the human rights organization HaMoked (Center for the Defense of the Individual) requesting entry into the Gaza Strip be granted to Israeli-Arabs during Muslim holidays. HaMoked requests that Israeli-Arabs be allowed to enter Gaza as early as next week. The petition was submitted after state officials notified the HaMoked center that this year Israeli-Arabs will be barred from entering the Gaza Strip due to Israel's difficulty in coordinating such visits with the Hamas government of the Palestinian Authority. The question whether to allow Israeli-Arabs and Palestinian residents of Jerusalem into Gaza rises every year ahead of the Muslim holidays Eid al-Fitr (end of Ramadan) and Eid al-Adha (festival of sacrifices). In previous years, Israel sanctioned the opening of the Erez crossing into Gaza during specific hours, and many Muslims didn't make it across during the allotted time. HaMoked officials said that following previous petitions regarding this issue, Israeli officials agreed to allow entry to individuals whose immediate family members reside in Gaza, but have not actualized their promise. HaMoked officials maintain the Hamas government does not require Israel to coordinate entry of Israeli-Arabs into the Palestinian Authority with them, and add that Israeli-Arabs have been granted entry into Gaza since Hamas rose to power, and the visits have never been coordinated with the Hamas in the past. "We are concerned that hiding behind this excuse are other considerations, having to do with the exertion of pressure upon the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip in order to achieve political goals," a HaMoked spokesman said. Bookmark to del.icio.us Remembering Rabin 150,000 gather in Tel Aviv to mark the 12th anniversary of Rabin's assassination. Bring on the big guns A U.S. judge okays defense request to subpoena Rice, Hadley in AIPAC trial.   1.   When Israeli Jews have free acces to Arab Moslem Universities 14:38  |  Bennie 18/10/06   2.   Get rid of Pines-Paz 14:39  |  Yakov 18/10/06   3.   Our Science, etc. Minister at least PRONOUNCES his name right! :D 15:02  |  Yaakov K. 18/10/06   4.   Those poor Arabs 15:25  |  stifffler 18/10/06   5.   Teach them democracy and the rule of law 15:51  |  Kapule David Mabuta 18/10/06   6.   what use Israeli uni. teaching on democracy, human rights 16:25  |  Josh Goldman 18/10/06   7.   Be political intelligent. 17:03  |  H.H.M 18/10/06   8.   They Shouldn`t Be In Our Universities To Begin With 17:10  |  Yishai Kohen 18/10/06   9.   To #1 17:57  |  Ben 18/10/06   10.   #1 Ben: So let them into Boston University 18:23  |  Bennie 18/10/06   11.   arabs dont let anyone with isreal stamp on passport 18:45  |  vik 18/10/06   12.   More Justification for A Boycott 18:53  |  Yaakov Sullivan 18/10/06   13.   Show me the 1 million cluster bombs 19:01  |  Marilyn 18/10/06   14.   #9 We Do 19:11  |  Ben 18/10/06   15.   To Vik 19:19  |  Ben 18/10/06   16.   NUMERUS CLAUSUS 19:24  |  some old yid 18/10/06   17.   Two points 19:31  |  Jack 18/10/06   18.   #5, KapuleNo actually they want to learn how to make better bombs 19:45  |  Terry 18/10/06   19.   #14, Right ben, we even trained those damn pilots, didn`t we. 20:01  |  Terry 18/10/06   20.   Availability of access 20:56  |  Yael 18/10/06   21.   No enemies allowed...want education, MAKE PEACE first 21:11  |  David 18/10/06   22.   she wasnt applying to study in Israel 21:22  |  SD 18/10/06   23.   Golman, et al, support boycotts but only one way 21:32  |  David Teich 18/10/06   24.   What a moral state , why not allowing Iranians and syrians also 21:41  |  Joseph E . 18/10/06   25.   to Marilyn, #13, actually Arabs have killed millions 21:48  |  David 18/10/06   26.   Enemy aliens 21:51  |  JO JO 18/10/06   27.   Palestinian students ARE studying in Israel 22:04  |  Jonathan S 18/10/06   28.   Reply #8 - You are Wrong 23:05  |  Matthew 18/10/06   29.   Divorce 23:36  |  Ron 18/10/06   30.   Education is not the answer as one may surmise 23:42  |  Bimmer 18/10/06   31.   # 22 SD Hebrew University 00:16  |  ChanahS 19/10/06   32.   To Kapule David Mabuta from Australia 00:16  |  Lebanese in Canada 19/10/06   33.   What I want to know is 00:17  |  ChanahS 19/10/06   34.   What do u think of if Hezbollah clows Isr univs to prevent the 00:40  |  Lebanese in Canada 19/10/06   35.   Yishai Kohen probably living in an illegal settlement 01:01  |  wibism 19/10/06   36.   Jews are not allowed to study in Arab countries 01:10  |  Debra 19/10/06   37.   KILLING JEWS and then JOINING THEIR SCHOOLS 01:15  |  amir 19/10/06   38.   Palestinian Students 01:34  |  * BEN JABO 19/10/06   39.   Ben 14 and 15 02:24  |  JO JO 19/10/06   40.   # 20 Matthew 02:39  |  ChanahS 19/10/06   41.   Students 02:51  |  Sherri 19/10/06   42.   WHO NEEDS THEM? WHAT BENEFIT IT IS TO ISRAEL? 03:40  |  none of it 19/10/06   43.   Arab Students 04:45  |  * BEN JABO 19/10/06   44.   study in israel 05:25  |  colin 19/10/06   45.   Security of Israel - is a priority NUMBER ONE. 05:38  |  Vittorio 19/10/06   46.   to yaakov 23:19  |  john 19/10/06   47.   *Ben Jabo. Arabs live in America! 03:49  |  Maureen Ann 04/11/07   48.   #5 Kapule David Mabuta. "Democracy and the rule of Law." 04:05  |  Maureen Ann 04/11/07

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