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Petah Tikva schools refuse to accept 80 Ethiopian immigrants
By Ayanawo Farada Sanbatu, Haaretz Correspondent

Eighty Ethiopian immigrant children, whose families transferred in recent months from absorption centers to permanent homes in Petah Tikvah, are still looking for schools that will agree to accept them for the upcoming school year .

The immigrants cannot be accepted to state secular schools as they have yet to finish their conversion process. The state-religious schools - where they are supposed to finish the conversion process - are not willing to accept them either, since the local authorities are concerned that they will scare off other students to private religious schools, leaving only the poverty stricken children in the state-religious schools.

Private religious schools in Petah Tikva are also unwilling to receive them.
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"It is inconceivable that independent religious schools, which receive funding from the Education Ministry and the local authority, will refuse to accept children to their schools", the Ethiopian immigrants said on Tuesday.

"If the schools would refuse to receive children from other communities, the public would shout out. All our children want to do is go to school and then the army to serve their country. But when the state needs to supply them with the education they deserve, they turn a blind eye."

Abraharm Nagosa, Chairman of an umbrella group of Ethiopian immigrant organizations, said "the Education Ministry has abandoned the Ethiopian immigrant children once again. I call upon the education minister to address this issue herself and ensure that all citizens of the state receive the equal education they deserve."

The Education Ministry responded, saying "the ministry is aware of the issue and is dealing with it. A meeting took place Tuesday with the local authority and in the next few days a second meeting will take place between all the relevant parties in order to find a suitable solution to the matter."

The Petah Tikva local authority said in response that "director-general of the Education Ministry Shmuel Abuav met Wednesday with Mayor Yizhak Ohayun to discuss the matter and it was decided that the Abuav would summon the principals of the private schools in order to convince them to accept the children."
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  1.   Apartheid 16:31  |  Mahona 01/08/07
  2.   The face of racism 16:38  |  Brod 01/08/07
  3.   It seems the only way to get something done... 16:46  |  common sense 01/08/07
  4.   "as they have yet to finish their conversion process" 16:51  |  Jake 01/08/07
  5.   Now those can Revive the Black Panthers, in real:) 17:08  |  Sharif Hafez 01/08/07
  6.   Hateful 17:21  |  bart 01/08/07
  7.   Where`s the Pork? 17:27  |  Joan Stuchner 01/08/07
  8.   #1 & #4 Not Apartied - Not a Conversion question 17:27  |  Kate 01/08/07
  9.   Really a good example from Religious Jews 17:35  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/08/07
  10.   To Mahona....WHAT??? 17:35  |  SLAVO 01/08/07
  11.   Jake. What Can One Say?! #4 17:38  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/08/07
  12.   #1 17:40  |  Sol 01/08/07
  13.   To Sharif....Really? 17:42  |  SLAVO 01/08/07
  14.   MOSHIACH STUDIED THE MATTER &REJECTEDFALASHA WTHOUT CONVERSION.NO 17:43  |  VOICE of MOSHIACH))) 01/08/07
  15.   Sharif what you know about Israel is limited to Elahram 17:46  |  Moshe Masri 01/08/07
  16.   re: "as they have yet to finish their conversion process" 17:47  |  ilan krashinsky 01/08/07
  17.   love israel but you;`re racist like america 17:50  |  ross 01/08/07
  18.   yeah jake its all america fault 17:55  |  ross 01/08/07
  19.   sharif at #5 18:10  |  scanadu 01/08/07
  20.   No ownder so many Jews do not practice Judaism 18:18  |  Stuart Wilder 01/08/07
  21.   Ethiopians 18:19  |  Howard 01/08/07
  22.   Apartheid 18:21  |  Condi 01/08/07
  23.   Very very sad 18:24  |  Ajay Kaur 01/08/07
  24.   Petah Tikva schools refuse to accept 80 Ethiopian immigrants 18:26  |  Gil Michaeli 01/08/07
  25.   Jake #4 Need One Wonder Why? 18:29  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/08/07
  26.   # 8 Is Israel really a Jewish State? New Info! 18:40  |  Sharif Hafez 01/08/07
  27.   The only way to Rule Israel 18:44  |  Danite 01/08/07
  28.   To Condi 18:45  |  Howard 01/08/07
  29.   Integration of new masses is always a problem 19:03  |  * BEN JABO 01/08/07
  30.   Ross, point taken 19:11  |  Jake 01/08/07
  31.   Ethiopian kids 19:19  |  Deborah 01/08/07
  32.   With a little bit of good will 19:24  |  Alicia 01/08/07
  33.   Segregation or integration? 19:26  |  Joseph 01/08/07
  34.   Ethiopian Jews 19:29  |  Michael Katz 01/08/07
  35.   Sadat was Black and I`m waiting 4 an Ethiopian PM in Israel 19:32  |  Sharif Hafez 01/08/07
  36.   Yaakov Sullivan, do not bring God into this discussion 19:33  |  Jake 01/08/07
  37.   Sharif Hafez, Israel is the State of the Jewish People 19:40  |  Jake 01/08/07
  38.   Howard 19:42  |  Condi 01/08/07
  39.   Joan Stuchner, what?? 19:50  |  Jake 01/08/07
  40.   #25 19:56  |  Condi 01/08/07
  41.   The more religious, the more intolerant 20:00  |  Yonatan 01/08/07
  42.   jake: Istand by my comments #36 20:02  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/08/07
  43.   Jake on expulsions and the Jewish State #37 20:06  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/08/07
  44.   #22 As a black woman you should know better 20:08  |  Kate 01/08/07
  45.   Unacceptable 20:10  |  Brad 01/08/07
  46.   to Sharif Hafez 20:12  |  Rodrigo 01/08/07
  47.   Ethipopian Jews 20:15  |  Mordekhai Levi Lopes 01/08/07
  48.   This is a disgrace to Israel and to Jews worldwide. 20:29  |  David 01/08/07
  49.   Will they accept Condalisa Rice, she`s black too !!! 20:30  |  Rami 01/08/07
  50.   To Porky #7 20:33  |  Tesfai 01/08/07
  51.   Schools in the arabic sector will accept them 20:35  |  Rami 01/08/07
  52.   Mordekhai Levi Lopes, as a Sephardic Jew 20:37  |  Jake 01/08/07
  53.   to Sharif Hafez 20:38  |  Rodrigo again 01/08/07
  54.   The biggest mistake ever 20:43  |  GPS 01/08/07
  55.   Yaakov Sullivan, the Greeks were in Egypt since Alexander! 20:45  |  Jake 01/08/07
  56.   The Lies Of Jake Must Be Exposed #52 20:54  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/08/07
  57.   Sullivan, you are wrong 20:56  |  Jake 01/08/07
  58.   Ethiopan students & religious schools 21:14  |  emell 01/08/07
  59.   Again He Lies this jake #55 21:17  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/08/07
  60.   ethiopan children 21:19  |  safta 01/08/07
  61.   11sullivan. There you go again... 21:20  |  shades of a charade 01/08/07
  62.   READ THE THE SECOND PARAGRAPH 21:25  |  Jay A Friedman 01/08/07
  63.   Lopes 21:29  |  danite 01/08/07
  64.   Yakovs apologies for Nasser 21:32  |  Danite 01/08/07
  65.   Yaakov Sullivan, wrong again 21:33  |  Jake 01/08/07
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  67.   #14 VOICE of MOSHIACH))) 21:37  |  Sol 01/08/07
  68.   #21 Howard 21:40  |  Sol 01/08/07
  69.   Jake and the Egypto-Greeks #55 21:41  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/08/07
  70.   Kate #44 21:45  |  Gilad 01/08/07
  71.   "Yaakov:" 22:00  |  Danite 01/08/07
  72.   Sullivan, RE "a free and Arab Egypt" 22:08  |  Jake