A threat to petition the High Court of Justice against chareidi mayors in Israel. The chareidi authorities do not transfer the funds earmarked for the care of disabled children, according to the chairman of the Movement for Fairness, Mordechai Eisenberg.

The entire affair was revealed following the affair of children of special education in Betar Illit and the petition filed by the children’s parents against the municipality and its chairman, Meir Rubinstein, in which Eisenberg investigated the behavior of the chareidi authorities towards special education children. Much more than it had seemed at first.

In an urgent letter sent this week to the heads of the chareidi authorities, Eisenberg warns against the failure of the authorities to comply with the law and the violation of judicial decisions, including the High Court’s decision of February 2018.

In his letter, Eisenberg writes the following poignant words his letter. “Unfortunately, despite the fact that it has become clear beyond any doubt, the legal framework imposes an absolute obligation on the local authority to budget special education students at the rate set forth in the Director-General’s regulations. However, in your city, these budgets are not paid in full, in a way that harms the services to which special education students are entitled by law, thereby severely impairing the development of these children.

“Mayors who work in this way do so because they can … because these parents do not have a cohesive political or community backbone, they are not a body that can demand what they deserve in the municipal political system … Another sick evil is the almost total dependence of the heads of the institutions or the heads of the non-profit organizations in municipal decisions, first and foremost in the placement of students and later in municipal budgets and services.

“There is also a method whereby the local authority uses its governmental power to rape and force the directors of the institutions (who are dependent on them) to sign a waiver in which they waive the debts of the past and even the current person from here on, provided that they receive part of the budget!) Is designed for the needs of students and therefore it is not possible to waive the transfer of funds to their destination.

“A mayor who does this is actually robbing the children of special education in his city, with false explanations, and turning the fruits of the robbery to the audiences he desires because of their political support. No, it was not in Sodom, It was a chareidi city in Israel”, Eisenberg stated.

“It turns out that the heads of the chareidi municipalities and the administration of the Education Ministry will soon have to appear before the justices of the High Court of Justice and explain how it is possible that chareidi cities have for years avoided transferring the budgets required by law to the weakest”.

Eisenberg is quoted telling Kikar Shabbos News “it is very unfortunate and very surprising to see how chareidi authorities are alienating the needs of special education children who are more needy than other children for complementary and rehabilitative treatments.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)