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Secular Minority Tries to Keep Chareidi Kindergarten from Opening in Ramot Alef

By Betzalel Kahn

A decision by Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky to open a chareidi kindergarten in Ramot Alef met stiff resistance by a minority opposition group and militant secularists.

In light of the growth of the chareidi population in Ramot, Mayor Lupoliansky decided to move the Civil Guard station on Rechov Morgenthau to make room for a chareidi-run kindergarten.

Members of the opposition party on the city council claimed the kindergarten was part of a move intended "to bring about a change in the composition of the population and to impart to the neighborhood a chareidi character." They threatened to organize a school strike in the neighborhood and demanded the Minister of Internal Security and the Jerusalem District Police Commander act to alter the decision.

Mayor Lupoliansky announced he stood firm in his decision to open the kindergarten and that the kindergartners would begin school this week. He then instructed municipal officials to act in cooperation with the police and the local community authority to locate an alternative site to house the neighborhood Civil Guard station.

Local residents said the opposition by fringe figures in the secular population was intended to revive past tensions between different sectors of the public and that the secular opposition is reminiscent of antisemitic rhetoric of bygone eras. The residents thanked the Mayor for his efforts to find solutions to ease the strain on the neighborhood's chareidi schools.

 

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