Israel Memorial Day:
■ Remembering the first 'non-Jewish' policeman killed in the line of duty
■ Batya lost her mother to war with Egypt. Years later her son fell in Lebanon
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Haaretz Cartoon
The last excuse given for Education Minister Yoav Gallant’s decision not to award the Israel Prize in mathematics and computer science to Professor Oded Goldreich of the Weizmann Institute is the professor’s signature on a petition calling on the EU to halt funding for Ariel University. Beyond the baseless disqualification and McCarthyite conduct by the education minister with his comments in recent days, Goldreich reminds us of something that is often forgotten: The academic institution in the territories was born in sin and only continues to exist thanks to laws that seek to erase the Green