Mr. Yitzchak Zahavi, who heads the Jerusalem District of the Ministry of Education, on Wednesday morning 27 Menachem Av summoned ten school principals for an urgent meeting on Sunday, 1 Elul, to the ministry’s Jerusalem office.
They were summoned to a hearing after it has been learned during the past week that dozens of students are yet to be assigned to schools in the chareidi system due to what appears to be ongoing discrimination. At present, Zahavi has a list of 50 girls whom have not been accepted to high school and the ministry does plan to impose sanctions on the schools.
The schools in question are located in Modi’in Illit, Jerusalem, Betar Illit, Elad, and Beit Shemesh. The ministry views this as insubordination on the part of the principals and the schools and it is unwilling to tolerate it any longer, vowing stern measures will be taken against schools that refuse to register students as they should.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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