The Supreme Court rejected the application filed by parents and two civil rights organizations • The judges accepted the district's position that most Arab parents are not interested in establishing a school
Galilee Landscape Municipality
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Gil Eliyahu - Ginny
The Supreme Court rejected a petition for the establishment of an Arab school in the Galilee landscape.
The Supreme Court upheld the ruling of the Nazareth District Court and rejected the appeal filed against its ruling rejecting the petition filed by parents of Arab children, the Musawa Center for Arab Civil Rights in Israel and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
The Supreme Court, like the district, accepted the municipality's position that the vast majority of Arab parents are not at all interested in establishing an Arab school, according to a survey conducted by the municipality among all parents.
The survey was conducted in collaboration with representatives of the Arab "Coexistence" faction in the city council.
"If there is no demand - there is no need to establish a school," the municipality explained its position.
The petitioners, on the other hand, argued that the Ministry of Education and the municipality should be required to establish a state school in which the language of instruction will be Arabic, regardless of the question of demand. This is given the fact that 27% of the residents of the Galilee landscape and more than a third of its students in all age groups are Arabs. They also claimed that the questionnaires distributed by the municipality did not in fact reflect the position of the city's Arab residents on the disputed issue.