Israel agrees to fund visually impaired girl's rides to school days after Haaretz report
Follow Dec. 13, 2020 The Education Ministry will pay for transportation to school for Fidaa Abu Afash, a 9-year-old visually impaired girl from the Bedouin Wadi al-Na’am community in the Negev, after refusing to do so for over a year. About two weeks ago Haaretz reported that the ministry was refusing to pay for Abu Afash’s transportation to the bilingual Degania School in Be’er Sheva, where she has been studying since kindergarten, with the explanation that there is a closer school for her. In the wake of this report, last week lawmaker Ahmad Tibi (Joint List) met with Education Minist...
Source: haaretz.com