University Diploma Conferment Ceremony Sponsored By Palestinian President ‚Abbas, Attended By Palestinian Authority Officials Also Honors One Of Israeli Minister Rehavam Ze’evi’s Assassins | MEMRI

The Palestinian Authority (PA) personal and financial support for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons convicted of carrying out terror attacks extends to academia.[1] According to an August 11, 2017 report in the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, these prisoners are also eligible for assistance in obtaining an academic degree, as part of a „special Prisoners Affairs Ministry and Education and Higher Education Ministry program that provides higher education opportunities to prisoners, among them 700 prisoners in four Israeli prisons: Negev, Rimon, Eshel, and Gilboa.“[2]