The Regents of the University of California, a 26-person body that governs the public school system, agreed on Wednesday to pay $116,000 to Yael Nativ, an Israeli dance instructor, and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law to settle a lawsuit alleging anti-Israel bias.

The center and the professor alleged in the suit that University of California, Berkeley rejected Nativ’s application to be a visiting professor in the 2024-25 academic year due to her Israeli nationality. She taught at the school in 2022.

Nativ sued in Alameda County Superior Court in August, after Berkeley’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination found in September 2024 that the school had discriminated against her.

Paul Eckles, senior litigation counsel at the Brandeis Center, to

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