Prohibition of Employment of Teaching Staff and Denial of Funding to Educational Institutions due to Identification with an Act of Terrorism or a Terrorist Organization (Legislative Amendments) Bill

What does the bill do?

The law authorizes the director general of the Ministry of Education to dismiss by administrative dismissal a teaching employee who is a state employee who was convicted of a serious security offense or a terrorism offense, or publicly identified with an act of terrorism, or published a direct call to carry out an act of terrorism or words of praise and sympathy for an act of terrorism, or in the case that the employee committed an act constituting a terrorism offense as defined in the Counter-Terrorism Law, except as meant in Section 24 of that law, provided that the Israel Security Agency or the Israel Police decided to pass on information on the matter to the director general of the Ministry of Education. All this is subject to a process that includes notifying the Civil Service Commissioner and giving an opportunity to respond to other parties, such as a workers' organization, as well as holding a hearing. The law authorizes the director general to refuse to grant an employment permit to an education employee who is not employed by the state, in all the circumstances stated above. The law authorizes the Minister of Education to deny or reduce the participation in the budget of an educational institution that receives support or participation in its budget from the state treasury, if expressions of support for or identification with an act of terrorism or with a terrorist organization took place in the educational institution that the institution's management should have known about, subject to a hearing process. In such circumstances the local education authority will also not participate in the budget of the educational institution.