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Saturday, August 08, 2009
Court: Haredi school must stop discrimination | Israel | Jerusalem Post
The High Court of Justice castigated a haredi girls' school in Emmanuel on Thursday for imposing discriminatory segregation between its Ashkenazi and Sephardi students.
Justices Edmond Levy, Edna Arbel and Hanan Meltzer warned that unless the Independent Educational Stream (hinuch atzma'i), which is directly responsible for the school, removes every "trace, whether formal or substantive, of expressions of discrimination," it would order the Education Ministry "to take every legal measure, including withdrawing the school's permit and stopping its funding, to correct the situation."
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The High Court of Justice castigated a haredi girls' school in Emmanuel on Thursday for imposing discriminatory segregation between its Ashkenazi and Sephardi students.
Justices Edmond Levy, Edna Arbel and Hanan Meltzer warned that unless the Independent Educational Stream (hinuch atzma'i), which is directly responsible for the school, removes every "trace, whether formal or substantive, of expressions of discrimination," it would order the Education Ministry "to take every legal measure, including withdrawing the school's permit and stopping its funding, to correct the situation."
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"In essence," wrote Levy, "a new school was established alongside the existing one."
A plaster wall was erected to divide the school building in two, each side had its own separate entrance, the playground was divided into two by burlap cloth and a fence, and the teachers' room was also divided in two. There were also claims that the timetable had been changed so that the children of the two schools would not play outside at the same time, and the school uniforms had been changed to differentiate between the students of each institution. ....
