Parents to children in the Givat Mordechai neighborhood in Jerusalem claim that the Jerusalem Municipality is harming the Religious Zionist population and evacuating their kindergarten in order to facilitate a haredi kindergarten. City council members claim that this is part of a political deal between mayor Nir Barkat and the haredim.
Parents of 34 children received notices of the evacuation of their kindergarten to a local school classroom but they claim the decision is strange and unreasonable as a school class can only hold 28 children so that 6 children will have to be transferred to alternative kindergartens after the festivals without taking into account the emotional difficulties involved.