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Telshe Stone: Children Of Working And Sephardi Parents Still Not Registered For School


1MK (Shas) Yaakov Margi chairs the Knesset Education and he has been working hard to end discrimination that exists in chareidi schools, now turning his sights to Telshe Stone amid reports that dozens of children from homes in which parents work and/or Sephardim are without a school as Rosh Chodesh Elul approaches.

Last month Margi addressed more than of few complaints alleging discrimination, complaints received from Sephardi homes claiming their schools are treated as second rate by municipality officials because they work and/or because they are Sephardim, highlighting they maintain a chareidi lifestyle in every sense of the word.

In July 2016 YWN-ISRAEL reported there were tens of families who were told they will have to transport their children to Jerusalem schools, adding that this year, the municipality will not cover all or part of the cost, adding additional burden to these families.

Kikar Shabbos News now quotes a source in the community anonymously stating “A few years ago a number of families of avreichim arrived in the lower community and little by little they have taken over control and implementing their rules – rules that are foreign to us here. They are trying to change the face of the community and this year, it has reached the education system. The children of working parents are now punished. It is simply a disgrace”.

The source adds in past years, if one did not wish to accept upon oneself some of the new rules, one would simply commute to Jerusalem and the municipality funded the transportation. This year, as reported, the municipality is not paying the costs of transportation so many of these families have not stated they want their children registered in schools in Telshe Stone but the municipality is refusing.

In some cases, appeals were filed with the appropriate committee in the Chinuch Atzmai system but apparently these appeals were rejected and the children are left without a school just days away from the beginning of the new school year. it is reported that currently there are over forty students without a school.

Margi has decided to become personally involved and was met with the message not to involve himself for his words will not be heard.

Margi however is not backing down but is threatening that if the discrimination continues, a session of the Knesset Education Committee accompanied by a press conference will be held on September 1st, this Thursday, in the Telshe Stone Municipality Building in response to the discrimination against the over forty students in Chinuch Atzmai affiliated schools.

A spokesman for Margi explains that what occurred in previous years in Elad and Emanuel is going to occur in Telshe Stone this year, referring to Margi’s efforts to bring an end to discrimination in those communities.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)



4 Responses

  1. Something about this story doesn’t seem right. There are 2 chedarim in Telzstone. I work and have absolutely no trouble with my 3 boys in the cheder. The menahel of the cheder works (he runs several mosdot and takes a salary) and he is American/Temani. There are also several sefardi families who send their kids there (and some of these fathers work too).

    Could it be that these families weren’t approved by the other cheder and that they did not want their kids to go to the “more modern” cheder (i.e. several baal habatish families send their kids there).

    Can anyone with any knowledge (maybe a Telzstoner?) shed some light on this. I only hear about this story from YWN and have not heard or seen anything happening in Telzstone that would indicate this is going on.

  2. The question is NOT Sefardi or working. It is a question of Chereidi or not. It happens that these particular families fall into that category and that is the problem. What they need is a school system for Chereidi and also for more modern families. The more modern never feel comfortable with the regulations of the Chereidi anyway and would be much happier with a modern system. Chereidi is no internet, no Iphones, etc. A Chereidi parent has a right to have a school where the child sitting next to his child is not showing him dirty pictures on his Iphone.

  3. P.S There was the same problem in Beitar a number of years ago, until they opened a separate system and now everyone is happy.

  4. This is not factual. My Temani grandchildren attend the cheder which is considered more to the “right.” There is a working parent in the family.

    Yes, on enrollment to the cheder, decisions were made not to wear denim and not to allow the children to watch videos, but that decision was made after full consideration of what the parents thought was right for their children.

    Agutyar explained the situation as it is.

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