Israel Prize restructured to avoid honoring Netanyahu critic – Israel News
The decision by Education Minister Yoav Kisch last week to scrap all of the Israel Prize’s traditional categories this year, and instead to award the honor to six recipients in only one category, of ‘civic heroism,’ may have been an attempt to avoid awarding the prize to an outspoken critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, according to new reports.Eyal Waldman, the Israeli tech giant who co-founded Mellanox Technologies, […]