A new bill seeks to eliminate the affirmative action practiced in Israeli academia and the Civil Service with respect to Israeli Arab candidates.
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The legislative proposal, sponsored by Likud MK Shlomo Karhi, states that individuals who performed military services, and especially service in combat units, should be given priority with respect to academic and employment opportunities – vis-à-vis any other Israel who did not serve in the IDF or performed National Service, as well.
The bill also states that women who served in combat roles should be prioritized with respect to academic and employment opportunities over women who did not serve in combat units.
The bill was co-sponsored by Shas MK Moshe Abutbul and Religious Zionist Party MK Orit Strook.
The abstract to the bill states that the proposal seeks "to compensate for deficiencies that prevent those who have served in the military or National Service from having equal opportunity for proper integration into society, and also to give priority to those who performed combat service over those who have not served at all, even if they are otherwise included in groups for which affirmative action is practiced."
Karhi noted that the recent riots by Israeli Arabs, which he said were "lauded by their representatives in the Knesset," also "remained everyone that Israeli Arabs have a long way to go before they accept the fact that the live in a Jewish democratic state.
"It's time to support and bolster Israel's loyal and Zionist citizens who are willing to lay down their lives for this country. We need to stop cowering before loose progressive valued touted by Israel-haters."
The bill, he stressed, "Will prioritize minorities who served in the military or performed National Service and who apply to academic institutions or Civil Service positions over those who did not [serve]."
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