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Hebrew University

News Flash:
Hebrew University - Sexual Predator Gideon Aran - brother-in-law to Ehud Olmert

IsraCampus.Org.il
4/3/2011

I have to confess to you that for several days I have been holding back revealing to you the most amazing and scurrilous aspect of the Gideon Aran affair. I held back because I did not have a solid quotable source. Now I found one.

Gideon Aran is the ultra-leftist sociology lecturer at the Hebrew University who has been in the media all this week due to his having harassed sexually a Hebrew University student. Ultimately the Hebrew University paid about 38,000 NIS in "hush money."  Unlike Prof. Eyal Ben-Ari, from the same department, whose name has been in the media for many years due to his OWN sexual harassment of students (some students accused him of rape), Aran's name was being quietly kept hidden until this week. Why was that?

I have known for a few days that Aran is or was married to the sister-in-law of Ehud Olmert. Aran's wife is or was Neta, the sister of Aliza Olmert, wife of Ehud Olmert. I can now break that news because it is confirmed by Dr. Orit Kamir, a faculty member (and feminist) at the law school of the Hebrew University. She confirms it here in Hebrew:
http://www.kedma.co.il/index.php?id=2014

Her article there is a long attack on Aran. I will not translate the entire long piece. The relevant section is this:

Kamir: "But Gideon Aran loves to remind people that he is brother-in-law to the Prime Minister (and, yes, this also has public important and interest in my opinion, as testament to "How you can give female students the impression that a faculty member is REALLY somebody of importance"), and Aran evidently does not like to be regarded as just an ordinary citizen, thinking he is entitled to an exalted status. He is unwilling to see ME exercise MY own freedom of speech (Kamir had earlier attacked Aran for his sexual hanky panky with students and had revealed that the internet stories about a lecherous prof were referring to Aran) and the freedom of the internet to tell the truth. …

"In the past whenever I mentioned him by name, he immediately called my home and threatened me. Now he has hired lawyers to threaten me and posted on the Rishimot site violent ranting threats, threats to sue me for huge amounts of damages…. A legal basis for these threats does not exist."

(Evidently Aran never actually sued her)

Was Ehud Olmert behind the hiding of Aran's identity for years? And for the long failure of the university and the legal system to take action against Aran?