Last week, Haaretz reported that the university's dean of students had decided to allow the ceremony to take place, on the condition that students pay for security guards for the event themselves.

In January, the High Court of Justice upheld the controversial Nakba Law passed by the Knesset last March, which grants the Finance Minister the authority to reduce the budget of state-funded bodies that openly reject Israel as a Jewish state or mark the state's Independence Day as a day of mourning.

The university's security unit also decided to change the location of the protest to a less central location.

On the ceremony’s agenda is a reading of a poem by poet Mahmoud Darwish, a moment of silence, as well a reading of an alternative version of the “Yizkor” prayer traditionally read at events commemorating fallen soldiers.

(Haaretz)

The party hopes the new legislation will result in equal distribution of the burden among the secular, haredi and Arab sectors of society.

(ynet)