The Ministry of Education is not pleased to have learned that Beit Shemesh Mayor Moshe Abutbul plans to operate four classes for chareidim only in the heart of a secular area and school in Beit Shemesh. The mayor’s plan to accommodate the growing chareidi population is not received with enthusiasm by the ministry, viewing the move as discriminatory and unacceptable.
The ministry explains it opposes the chareidi-only registration, demanding open registration in all city schools in Beit Shemesh, threatening if the mayor fails to comply within a week, the ministry will take over school registration in Beit Shemesh.
City spokesman Moti Rosenzweig explained the mayor is abroad and therefore, unavailable for comment, adding the city is only operating under the authority it is granted by law.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Sort of bulldozer into a neighborhood and leaving prior residents with bullets in their heads. Not exactly toras hashem.
The mayor of B”S is acting very sensibly. Why mix kinder who are still pure and unsullied with those who could only expose them to negative and undesireable language, dress and concepts
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sooo you believe that because people lived in a neighborhood these hasids can’t get any gov’t programs? Please be realistic. hasid haters having lived in a neighborhood, does NOT give them full rights to expel or to not provide services as trash pickup, police protection, etc. to any new comers!
Please for heavens sake try thinking out of the box! bias is a box which is hard to see the outside from within.