24.05.2012                      03.Siwan. 5772                    Tag 47 des Omer

Innenpolitik:

Bezalel's senate calls for sacking of executive chairman

In April, the Council for Higher Education disqualified former Haaretz editor in chief for school's next president because he is not a professor.

The senate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design sent its board of trustees a letter on Wednesday demanding the immediate replacement of the executive board chairman and changing the institution's rules to limit the term of the academy's executive board members and chair.
An accumulation of recent events, "culminating in the deficient procedure of choosing Bezalel's president, created an intolerable atmosphere and a feeling of instability, casting doubt on the performance of executive board chairman Zvi Barak", the senate members wrote in their letter….