From Higher ed council advances settlement medical school
The Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria has voted to approve the establishment of a medical school at Ariel University in the northern West Bank, hours after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit ruled that an earlier reversal on the matter had not been binding.
Mandelblit determined that the Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) had the right to decide on whether or not to establish the medical school and does not need to follow a decision to veto the department’s establishment made by a separate subcommittee last week.
However, a final decision will be up to the main Council for Higher Education, which is slated to absorb the Judea and Samaria branch later this month. An official with knowledge of the deliberations tells The Times of Israel that the main council will likely green-light the project when it next convenes.
Education Minister Naftali Bennett praises the attorney general’s decision as well as the Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria’s subsequent vote as “a huge victory for medicine in Israel.”
— Jacob Magid
The Times of Israel Community.