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Published online 15 May 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.483
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Defending basic research in Israel
The country's science minister speaks out on proposed budget cuts.
Daniel Hershkowitz, appointed Israel's minister of science and technology in March, is a linear algebraist, but the vector along which he travelled to his current position was hardly a straight line. Last year he was plucked from his academic perch at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa to head the Habayit Hayehudi (The Jewish Home) party, a new incarnation of the political party that has traditionally represented those of Israel's Orthodox Jews who see integration into modern society as part of their creed.
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