One of the realities facing Israel post Operation Protective Edge is budget cuts. This includes a 517 million shekel cut in the education budget in addition to a 175 million shekel cut in higher education budgeting. University heads are warning the results of the government decision will be disastrous.
Heads of universities explain that following the cuts of the past decade, which led to the best minds in the country leaving to study elsewhere, the nation’s institutions of higher education managed to limp along with a fiscal rehabilitation plan.
As a result of the new reality they explain scholarships will be rare and efforts to bring back many top students who fled elsewhere will come to an end. They warn that the day of seeing Israeli Nobel Prize laureates are behind us if Israel does not view funding of higher education as a serious national priority.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Guess that’s what you get from a hatefull tv celeb turned finance minister. Curious, does he have any education/background in finance?
Midda conneged Middah. Maybe Hashem wanted Universities to feel the similar pain that Yesivas felt, when their budgets were cut? Nu?
Yeshivas..correction
The government is already involved in way too many things, extremely inefficient and financially totally out of control. This is a step in the right direction.