Hungary's culture and innovation minister, Balázs Hankó, said he has initiated the revocation of a state scholarship for a foreign student who disrupted a lecture by Israeli historian Alexander Yakobson at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, and will tighten scholarship conditions so that recipients who disturb public order can lose their funding. The interruption occurred on October 16 during the opening session of a public, three-part course titled “Diversity and Democracy in Israeli