BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261013T1654Z-1791910459.3709-EO-794747-1@10.73.15.240 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20261017T091208Z CREATED:20261013T140734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261013T141002Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T131500 SUMMARY: Need over Merit: Tracing the History of Israel’s Anti-Discriminat ion Legislation in the Early Welfare State with Anat Ovadia-Rosner DESCRIPTION: This talk uncovers a forgotten chapter in Israeli legal histor y\, offering insights into contemporary anti-discrimination jurisprudence. Israel’s 1959 Employment Service Law introduced the nation’s first statutor y prohibition on discrimination in job referral and hiring\; affirmative ac tion measures\; and a prohibition of segregation in employment bureaus betw een Jews and Palestinian-Arab citizens. This law was rooted in […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This talk uncovers a forgotten chapter in Israeli legal history\, offering insights into contemporary anti-discrimina tion jurisprudence. Israel's 1959 Employment Service Law introduced the nat ion's first statutory prohibition on discrimination in job referral and hir ing\; affirmative action measures\; and a prohibition of segregation in emp loyment bureaus between Jews and Palestinian-Arab citizens. This law was ro oted in Israel's early welfare-state structures\, nation-building imperativ es\, and a non-meritocratic view of labor as a public resource allocated by the state according to economic needs. This\, in turn\, yielded broad conc eptions of the purposes and boundaries of anti-discrimination protection am ong policymakers. However\, implementation was limited and failed to transf orm Israel's discriminatory labor allocation\, particularly against Mizrahi Jews and Palestinian-Arab citizens. While inviting us to reimagine anti-di scrimination beyond a liberal rights vocabulary\, this history offers both alternative pathways and cautionary tales.
Moderated by Sharon Block LOCATION:Hauser Hall\; 105 Jackson Meeting Room GEO:0;0 ORGANIZER;CN="API User":MAILTO:api@law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/need-over-merit-tracing-the-hi story-of-israels-anti-discrimination-legislation-in-the-early-welfare-state -with-anat-ovadia-rosner/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20261101T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR