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Education Minister Yoav Kisch stirred up a storm when he cancelled this year's Israel Prize award categories after learning a Netanyahu critic won the entrepreneurship category, but will now have to hand him the prize himself

High Court compels Israel's education minister to explain his decision to cancel this year's Israel Prize after learning that a prominent protester against PM Netanyahu's judicial coup had been selected in one of the categories

The petition argues that, according to Israel Prize regulations, the education minister has no authority to cancel prize categories. 'The only, unfortunate explanation for these decisions is a completely unacceptable attempt by the education minister to take over the award'

Education Minister Yoav Kisch cancelled most of this year's categories because one of the recipients led anti-government protests, turning the Israel Prize into his own private enterprise

This year's Israel Prize will not be awarded in its traditional categories of humanities, sciences and culture, but rather only in one category, in which six recipients who 'contributed to the country's recovery after the terrible crisis that befell us on October 7'