The legal battle against Bnei Brak City Hall allocations continues with a court order instructing City Hall to halt at this time.

The Kerem Israel NGO filed a petition against the Municipality of Bnei Brak and the allocations committee along with other non-profit organizations claiming that illegal allocations were given to various parties for reasons pertaining to extraneous considerations. The court accepted the petition and issued a temporary injunction freezing the entire allocation process.

In addition, the petitioners claim through attorneys David Dror and Yuval Grinstein, that the municipal allocation process is flawed because many lands were allocated to officials close to senior municipal officials, while discriminating against the petitioners as opposed to other educational organizations. The petitioners are calling on the court to cancel allocations, claiming there is a conflict of interests.

According to Kerem Israel, they operate an elementary school with 430 pupils but they were discriminated against in the allocation process.

“If the city had properly weighed the public’s needs, we would not be in dispute about meeting the criteria set by law,” petitioners explain.

According to them, there is no dispute that the municipality did not distribute the public resources properly, but acted in a way that raises serious and real concern for government corruption and the allocation process and leaves the situation as it is today until another decision.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)