The Right to Kindergarten Education for Arab Children in Segev Shalom.

Petitioned the Court in 12/99 to compel the government-appointed local council in Segev Shalom (one of seven government-planned towns established to relocate more than 120,000 Arab Bedouin living in the Naqab) and the Minister of Education to establish kindergartens for 400 Arab Bedouin children, in accordance with previously issued government decisions. The local council had previously opened preschools for 200 children, but overcrowded and lacking in play space, they fell below the Ministry of Education's standards and the head of the council closed them for safety reasons. Parents protested, and the appointed local council head promised to improve the conditions and reopen the classes but did not do so. Following the issuance of an order nisi by the Court, the respondents re-opened the pre-schools for 200 children. Judgment in 01/00 and Adalah awarded legal fees of NIS 5,000.

(H.C. 8534/99, The Parents Committee in Segev Shalom, et. al. v. The Government-Appointed Council in Segev Shalom, et. al.)