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A letter sent today (Sunday) to the Director General of the Ministry of Education Assaf Tselal attacks the claims of the segregation of female students in Jerusalem on the basis of its sectarian content: "Segregation creates a feeling of deprivation and inferiority, which harms the child's dignity as a person," wrote lawyers Tal Hasin and Haran Reichman on behalf of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
According to the claims of female students of Mizrahi descent at the "Beit Ya'akov-Nevah Bat Sheva" school in Jerusalem, they were forced to study separately and in a branch far from their place of residence, from the female students of Ashkenazi origin, and this against the background of the sectarian situation. At the end, the lawyers asked Tzalel for an urgent answer, before starting legal proceedings.
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"Discrimination that harms the child's dignity as a person".
Haredi female students, illustration (Photo: ShutterStock)
The association criticized the conduct of the school, and mentioned the incidents of discrimination against female students in Immanuel and the Ethiopian students in Ashdod.
"It is unfathomable that more than a decade after the Supreme Court's ruling in the cases, the network of the independent education stream still maintains dedicated, separate and inferior frameworks for female students of Eastern origin," they wrote to the director general of the Ministry of Education. The association emphasized, "Sectarian origin is not a relevant difference.
" They further argued that the existence of separate classes "undermines" fundamental principles in law. "Separation contradicts the value of equality and constitutes prohibited discrimination," they explained, "It has already been ruled that discrimination, and its manifestation in the education system in particular, creates a feeling of deprivation and inferiority, which harms the child's dignity as a person
The lawyers stated that "following pressure exerted by Ashkenazi parents from Neve Ya'akov and Pisgat Ze'ev who objected to their daughters studying alongside Mizrahi
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