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Israel’s top court cancels bonus plan for artists performing in settlements

The High Court rules in favor of a petition that sought to end a policy of giving government bonuses to artists who performed in West bank settlements.
(FILES) A picture taken on August 30, 2010 shows a contractor speaking to an employee as they look at the plan of a newly built theater in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Ariel. The controversial cultural centre will formally open on November 8, 2010 in the Ariel Jewish settlement as Israeli artists and academics urge a boycott in a row which has split Israel.  AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel's High Court canceled May 13 the bonus system put in place by Culture Minister Miri Regev for artists performing in West Bank settlements.

The ruling came on the Likud member's next-to-last day on the job; on May 14, the new national-unity government is to be sworn in and the culture portfolio is to go to a Blue and White member under the deal struck April 20 between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. It was unclear May 13 whether Regev would occupy another Cabinet post in the new government.

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