February 20, 2004

Israel's Supreme Court Criticizes Universities

By HAIM WATZMAN

Israel's Supreme Court decided this month that it lacks the authority to review admissions policies at the country's public universities. But the three judges who heard preliminary arguments in a case involving those policies severely criticized them and said they discriminate against minority groups, such as Israeli Arabs, and the disadvantaged.

"An entire population has been designated as hewers of wood and bearers of water," Justice Edmond Levy said to a lawyer representing the

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