Chairman Ofer Shelah of the Yesh Atid Knesset faction has called the Hebrew University's decision to examine the change in the language of instruction to English an absurd idea, saying, "In the name of international status and the attractiveness to foreign students, they want to take a step that goes against one hundred and fifty years of Zionism and the essence of a people in their country."
He added, "If the university does not abandon this idea, the political establishment must make it cancel it."