Fleeing ‘African’ Schools: Tel Aviv’s Segregation Policy is Pushing Asylum Seekers Away From the City
Holon, Bat Yam, Netanya, Ashdod, and Bnei Brak are just some of the cities to which young families of asylum seekers from Eritrea have recently relocated. The high cost of living in south Tel Aviv is one significant consideration for these families, but the main reason for the move, they say, is Tel Aviv Municipality’s segregation policy, which concentrates these children in dedicated schools for Africans and other foreigners. “Children in asylum seeker schools sometimes can’t even write their own names.” A special Shomrim report
April 20, 2023