The Tel Aviv District Court has rejected a petition by asylum seekers against their children’s de facto separation from Israeli children in Tel Aviv schools.
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The petition was filed last year by asylum seekers whose children attend city schools. It was spurred by Haaretz’s report in 2020 that 91.5 percent of asylum seekers’ children attended schools without a single Israeli student. The city placed the others in schools that did have Israeli students, but only if the asylum seekers constituted no more than 30 percent of the student body.
Due to this policy, the petition said, many asylum seekers’ children were placed in schools far from their own homes rather than in the nearby schools that Israeli children attended.
The municipality countered that schools are assigned based solely on the child’s place of residence. But last September, after the petition was filed, it also agreed to place some asylum seekers’ children in schools outside their own neighborhoods, though only first through third graders, on condition that the schools had space and only if the parents requested it. This agreement followed negotiations between the city and the petitioners, with the court’s encouragement.
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“These children, who were born in Israel, grew up there and aren’t going anywhere, are part of Israeli society,” they continued. “We will appeal to the Supreme Court.”'
-Bar Peleg
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