Petah Tikva schools refuse to accept 80 Ethiopian immigrants - Haaretz - Israel News

Petah Tikva schools refuse to accept 80 Ethiopian immigrants - Haaretz - Israel News 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.