Israeli civil servants with dubious academic degrees from Latvia are still eligible for benefits, a Supreme Court justice ruled. Theodor Orr overturned Thursday a Civil Service Commission decision to invalidate Latvian degrees that thousands of personnel, including Knesset members and senior police chiefs, had earned by correspondence course.
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