Haredi School Ruled In Contempt By Israel's Highest Court

According to the High Court, the school refused to implement the court's ruling and "aided in preventing the application of the instruction to remove all traces of [anti-Sefardic] discrimination that were rife in the school."

 

High Court: Contempt of court against discriminating school
Aviad Glickman • Ynet

The High Court ruled against the independent educational center, responsible for operating Haredi schools, for contempt of court when it failed to compel its female Ashkenazi students at Emmanuel's Beit Yaacov School to attend. According to the High Court, it thus "aided in preventing the application of the instruction to remove all traces of discrimination that were rife in the school."

The High Court ruled that the center should pay NIS 5,000 ($1,350) fine for each day it failed to carry out the court's order. The new ruling follows a previous ruling according to which the school must not discriminate between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi students, after which parents of Ashkenazi students refused to send their daughters to study.

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[Hat Tip: Joel Katz.]