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The Right To Education: Its Changing Faces In A Constitutional Revolution Era, Lotem Perry Dr.

Dr. Lotem Perry-Hazan

Almost two decades after the constitutional revolution, the Supreme Court of Justice ruled in the Tebeka case that the right to education is a constitutional right, which is interrelated with the right to dignity. My article analyzes the norms that shaped the right to education in Israel during the last two decades in order to explore whether and how the Tebeka case reflected the processes that characterized the education policy. The discussion is divided according to four features of the right to education, whose definition is based on a normative framework outlined by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and …