The decision still needs the approval of a joint meeting of Sudan's sovereign council and cabinet, which serves as Sudan's interim legislative body. 

Having arrived only after 1953, when the special compensation agreement with Germany was signed, many are not entitled to the monthly stipend and other benefits

Arab MKs walk out in protest at swearing in ceremony, could be denied legislative authority.

The petition, signed by 522 academics in Israel and abroad, called on the European Union to "ensure that its taxpayer-funded research program are not used to legitimize or otherwise sustain the establishment and the activities of Israeli academic institutions in illegal settlements."

"For the first time ever, the Jewish communities of Bahrain and Dubai will be participating in the Yellow Candle Project, the global communal effort to remember victims of the Holocaust," umbrella group says.