Liel Kyzer and Yair Ettinger (Haaretz)
By Liel Kyzer and Yair Ettinger (Haaretz)
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Breaking News State to Court: Don’t Jail Ultra-Orthodox Mothers Violating School Segregation Order
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein advised the High Court of Justice on Wednesday to refrain from enforcing jail sentences for the 22 ultra-Orthodox women charged with violating an order to send their Ashkenazi daughters to school with their Sephardi peers. The mothers had appealed to the High Court after failing to show up for their two-week…
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Breaking News Israeli Segregated School Affair: Protestors Meet Parents On Their Way to Jail
Thirty five men, fathers to Ashkenazi girls attending an illegally segregated school in the West Bank settlement of Immanuel, arrived at the Ma’asiyahu prison Thursday evening to serve a two-week sentence. Parents of European, or Ashkenazi, descent at the all girls’ school don’t want their daughters to study with schoolgirls of Mideast and North African…
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