MK Uri Maklev accuses Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat of ignoring the needs of children in capital, which has resulted in their deprivation of “basic human rights”.

Maklev took part in a visit to the Yovel School on Sunday, 2 Rosh Chodesh Elul, which is located in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of the capital. The school was opened to serve the growing number of children living in nearby Kiryat Yovel.

Maklev expressed satisfaction with the opening of the new school, which is says is a major step in responding the needs of Kiryat Yovel residents. He explains the chareidi families were a small minority in the community a number of years ago, and they suffered greatly as Mayor Barkat and his advisors ignored their most basic needs, often at the expense of the young children who simply requested to be permitted to study in an orderly and appropriate classroom, nothing more.

He called the city’s response to the needs of Kiryat Yovel’s growing chareidi community an “injustice”, citing they have been compelled to travel distances daily in order to place their children in an appropriate school.

Accompanying Maklev were Deputy Mayor Yitzchak Pindrus, Councilman Eliezer Ruchberger, and Councilman Yisrael Kellerman. Maklev explained the opening of the new school was the result of persistence and mesirus nefesh by those involved as City Hall was not exhibiting a willingness to assist.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)