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On Tuesday 2010-02-02 representatives of the Hebrew Wikipedia presented their achievements to the Science committee of the Knesset (the Israeli parliament). At the meeting there were also representatives of Creative Commons Israel, the Ministry of Education and Israeli academics, who use Wikipedia as an educational tool and improve its contents. Committee chairman Meir Sheetrit was impressed by the possibilities of the Free Culture model and promised to draft a proposal to loosen the copyright restrictions on images, legal texts and educational materials produced by the Israeli government for the benefit of the public.

See also: Is Wikipedia good for the Jews?, The Jerusalem Post