The Finance Ministry has held meetings in recent weeks about the possibility of establishing Israel's first Arab university in the Lower Galilee city of Sakhnin, according to a Tuesday-morning report by the Yisrael Hayom daily. The Treasurer's Office said the ministry is "only examining the matter".

The newspaper said consideration of the possibility was a reason that Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Science Minister Ya'akov Perry took part in a tour of the city last week.