school buses

School transportation for children from 20 villages in Naqab (Negev) region ground to sudden halt after regional council blames Israeli Education Ministry for failing to transfer funds.

Preschool kids from 20 villages in Neve Midbar Regional Council have been stuck at home for three days; Adalah demands Israeli Education Ministry and regional council immediately renew buses.

Judge notes that Adalah's petition demanding bus stop construction was 'important' and that it 'bore fruit'; regional councils have 12 months to build bus stops.

Hundreds of Bedouin children have for years faced serious safety hazards on their daily journeys to and from school; Adalah won't withdraw petition until concrete construction schedule is set.

Israeli authorities have twice violated a court decision to provide school buses for 3- and 4-year-old Bedouin preschool children from villages in the desert south.

Agreement between Education Ministry and local councils allows petitioners' children to return to preschool immediately, provides solution for kids from other unrecognized Bedouin villages.

Education Ministry had promised school transport for kids aged 3 and 4 living in unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Naqab desert.