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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

Asa Kasher

Asa Kasher attends a conference at the Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, June 11, 2017. (Flash90)
November 5, 2022, 1:24 am
Author of IDF ethics code slams religious nationalist, Haredi camps as ‘mutations’
Speaking after far-right, ultra-Orthodox election successes, Asa Kasher says they represent a ‘malignant’ transition from historic image of Jewish people; Facebook removes his post
By ToI Staff
Ex-Mossad chief Danny Yatom (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)
January 4, 2021, 11:13 am
Former Mossad chief to launch retirees political party
Danny Yatom, also a former Labor MK, begins process of registering party, which will focus on issues relating to senior citizens
By ToI Staff
Illustration. Israeli students participate in a mass chemistry experiment at Tel Aviv University on Sep 22, 2011. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
March 25, 2018, 9:22 am
Universities urged to enforce code banning politics in lectures
Contentious rules, which go into effect in 2019 and were pushed by education minister, also include prohibition of calls for boycott of Israel
By Michael Bachner
Asa Kasher attends a conference at the Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, June 11, 2017. (Flash90)
December 17, 2017, 11:54 am
Author of IDF ethics code said helping break ‘Breaking the Silence’
Asa Kasher said to donate $123,000 to two organizations that campaign against controversial IDF testimony-collecting group
By ToI Staff
IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria, a soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting an injured, disarmed Palestinian attacker in Hebron, seen during an appeal hearing at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2017. (FLASH90)
July 31, 2017, 2:33 pm
As Azaria case roils politicians, IDF ethicist slams soft sentence
Army ethics code drafter Asa Kasher says only 18 months for Hebron shooter sends ‘terrible message’; opposition party leaders say politicians should butt out
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Naftali Bennett speaking at a business conference in Jerusalem, June 19 2017. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)
June 19, 2017, 1:56 pm
Education minister backpedals on academic ethics code
Bennett says new academic ethics code banning politics from lectures is only a basis for dialogue toward consensus
By Shoshanna Solomon
Naomi Chazan
June 19, 2017, 1:34 pm
Naomi Chazan
Brilliant minds, wasted resources
Official ultra-Orthodox sex-segregation in higher education is like a gateway drug to curbing other academic freedoms
Eytan Meir
June 15, 2017, 4:02 pm
Eytan Meir
Protect Israel’s academic freedom
When professors bully students for political dissent, they cripple the pride of the academy — free exchange of ideas
This photo from the Nakba Day event at Tel Aviv University on May 15, 2016, shows a 15-foot tall Pinocchio erected by members of the right-wing Im Tirtzu organization. (Credit: Or Buchbut)
June 12, 2017, 3:39 pm
A people that yells alone
Spurned opposition help to push along the peace process combines with claims that a university ethics code is meant to silence dissent from the left — creating the idea that only one side of the spectrum can speak up
By Joshua Davidovich
Asa Kasher attends a conference at the Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, June 11, 2017. (Flash90)
June 12, 2017, 9:27 am
Bennett may not have backing to ban politics in universities
Education minister reportedly lacking support from Council for Higher Education to bar professors from expressing political opinions on campus
By Stuart Winer
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 11, 2017, 10:34 pm
Rivlin rejects curbs on political speech by university lecturers
President stresses importance of freedom of expression, says Israel must ‘develop a system that encourages controversy’
By ToI Staff
Asa Kasher attends a conference at the Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, June 11, 2017. (Flash90)
June 11, 2017, 5:30 pm
Education minister defends bid to ban politics in universities
Ethicist Asa Kasher, author of controversial code, says it will prevent ‘political adulteration’ of academia, blasts critics as ‘conservative’
By Stuart Winer
All eyes on him: Naftali Bennett at a foreign policy debate co-organized by The Israel Project and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, January 08, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 11, 2017, 2:03 pm
Who lectures the lecturers?
There’s not a lot of love for the university ethics code in the press, but one paper does show what happens when institutions are scrubbed to the government’s liking
By Joshua Davidovich
Students walk through the Tel Aviv University campus in Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
June 11, 2017, 10:40 am
Academia shudders at plan to ban politics from university classrooms
School heads, politicians say ‘Bolshevik’ ministry ethics code violates academic freedom by keeping lecturers from voicing opinions; Bennett defends it, saying students afraid to express views
By Stuart Winer
Israeli border police officers stand next to a poster of Sgt. Elor Azaria, during a demonstration by hardline nationalists who support him, outside the Israeli military court in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, January 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
January 4, 2017, 11:44 pm
Elor Azaria’s trial is over, but the tribulations have only just begun
With sentencing, appeals and possible clemency for the Hebron shooter waiting in the wings, Israel’s legal system faces an ongoing test
By Judah Ari Gross
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