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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel to decide which foreign lecturers allowed to teach in Palestinian universities</h1>March 8, 2022</div>
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<p>Defense ministry brings in new regulations concerning international students and their teachers</p>
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<p>Palestinian students attend their graduation ceremony on 20 May 2016 at Birzeit University in the West Bank (AFP)</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel's</a> defense ministry reportedly plans to decide which foreign lecturers are allowed to teach in <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> universities in the occupied West Bank and what topics they are allowed to teach.</p>
<p>According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, a new set of rules issued by
the ministry's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (<a href="https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/.premium-1.10659419" target="_blank">COGAT</a>)
will allow Palestinian institutions in higher education to employ
lecturers from abroad only if they meet specific criteria defined by
Israel.</p>
<p>Those lecturers and researchers need to be "outstanding", with at
least a doctorate. They have to submit a visa application at the Israeli
consulates in their countries before traveling to the West Bank.</p>
<p>COGAT is setting a limited number of teaching visas, which would not exceed 100, according to Haaretz.</p>
<p>The new rules were issued last month by army generals at COGAT but will come into effect beginning of May.</p>
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<p>There will also be a yearly limit of 150 visas issued to
international students who would like to study in Palestinian
universities. </p>
<p>Haaretz reported that COGAT and the defense ministry will have the
power to restrict the academic subject taken by international students,
who also need to go through an interview at the Israeli consulate as
part of their visa application.</p>
<p>One document COGAT asks to be submitted as part of the visa
application by students or lecturers is an official invitation letter
issued by the Palestinian Authority (PA).</p>
<p>Lecturers and students' visas will be valid for a year, with the
possibility of extension. Lecturers can teach for five non-consecutive
years at maximum, but they have to depart the country for nine months
after 27 months of teaching, in order to comply with Israeli
regulations.</p>
<p>International students can stay for four years to complete their graduate or post-doctoral degrees, and then they have to leave.</p>
<p>These new procedures will include all students and academics traveling to the West Bank from countries that had diplomatic ties with
Israel, including the United Kingdom and European Union.</p>
<p>However, according to Haaretz, citizens of Jordan, Egypt, the United
Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, who all have diplomatic ties with
Israel, can only apply for shorter teaching and studying visas under
stringent rules.</p>
<p>The new rules will also decide the visa time of workers at NGOs in
the Palestinian areas and for investors and business people who would
like to work in the West Bank.</p>
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