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The university that we have today is the product of the Cold War, this massive expansion

of higher education and this massive expansion of federal subsidies.

The idea behind that massive expansion of public public investment in higher education, was the

idea that we were going to have a compact between higher education and our democracy and

our republic.

But what's actually happened is that you have people who are professional activists that

are notionally about educating, that instead become about indoctrinating.

It's 6.30 p.m. on Saturday, November 29th here in New York City. Hope everyone had a good

Thanksgiving and Chavua Tov. It is 1.30 a.m. on Sunday, November 30th in Israel, where Israelis are

beginning a new week. Today, Saturday, the IDF announced the chief of staff A.L. Zamir will appoint a panel of experts

who will investigate the military's handling of intelligence reports received since 2018,

which included signs of Hamas's intent to launch a wide-scale attack across the Gaza border.

This comes amid a public feud between Zemir and Defense Minister Israel-Cats over probes

into the military failures surrounding October 7th.

On Thursday, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Boaz Bismuth

unveiled his long-awaited revision of a government-backed bill that would ensure the

continuation of military exemptions for ultra-Orthodox or Haredi yeshiva students,

while ostensibly increasing conscriptions among graduates of those seminaries.

The proposed legislation removes provisions from earlier drafts intended to

ensure that those registered for Yeshiva are actually studying and cancels all sanctions on draft

evaders when they turn 26. The proposal has drawn heavy criticism from those who have been

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