An Israeli lecturer in modern Hebrew who claimed she was made redundant after converting from Judaism to Christianity has had her case of religious discrimination dismissed.
At an employment tribunal in Reading, Judge Robin Lewis upheld Dr Tali Argov’s complaint of unfair dismissal, but ruled that the academic is not entitled to any compensation.
Dr Argov had been working at the Oxford Centre for Jewish and Hebrew Studies for eight years when she converted to Anglicanism in January 2008. Her husband, also an Israeli, had converted three years earlier and their children had been baptised.
She later lost her job and claimed to have been ostracised by colleagues. In March 2009 Dr Argov began legal proceedings, claiming discrimination dating back to her husband’s conversion.
