MK Tally Gotliv told an interviewer: 'Stop lying in your phrasing of the question about the bill. This is not a bill for gender segregation in academia, it is a bill for equality for those who want to study according to their faith.' The remark, made Monday evening, responds to ongoing Knesset debate over the legislation.
MK Tally Gotliv (Likud) sharply rejected the framing of a question about the gender-segregation bill in an interview broadcast Monday evening, telling the interviewer to 'stop lying' about the legislation's purpose. 'This is not a bill for gender segregation in academia,' Gotliv said. 'It is a bill for equality for those who want to study according to their faith.' The bill, which the Knesset Education Committee debated last week, would allow academic institutions to maintain sex-separate study tracks or classes at the request of religious students. Critics, including Tel Aviv University law professor Yofi Tirosh, have argued the legislation promotes separation rather than integration. Gotliv's explicit rebuke marks an unusually direct public exchange between a lawmaker and a media interviewer over the bill's presentation.
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