A lawsuit that charged that a northern Israeli city was violating its obligation to provide transportation for Arab Israeli children to local schools was dismissed out of hand on Monday morning, in part to protect “the Jewish character of the city,” the court said. Krayot Magistrate’s Court judge Yaniv Luzon wrote in his ruling that providing services to Arabs would change the makeup of Carmiel, which he said was “a Jewish city which is intended to strengthen Jewish settlement in the Galilee.”  He also added, “The construction of an Arabic-language school or providing transportation for Arab students, wherever and whoever wants it, could change the demographic balance and the character of the city,” he wrote. According to the Education Ministry’s guidelines: “The obligation to organize and implement the transportation falls on the local authorities in which students live. The Education Ministry does not take part in organizing transportation, only participating in funding them.” To check the news, click here