Residents complain: gone mad, separate children's library, too?

Excessive separation? Haredi residents of Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem, complain that in the public library there is a separation between children who visit it.

Y, a resident of the neighborhood, said that on Thursday he took his little brother to the library, where he discovered that he could not get in, because it was between 14:00 and 16:15, when the library is only for girls who are interested to borrow books. "I suggested to him to go alone," says Y, "but nothing worked."

Y. was forced to return home. "Even as a Haredi person and a resident of the neighborhood, I can not understand the logic of the separation at the library."

He says this is a library funded by the municipality. "As long as there are people who are not interested in such separation, the municipality needs to stand behind them. It is unconceivable that neighborhood children who are library users and most of them under the age of 13 will have to deal with this separation."

A photograph of the public library's schedule shows that on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 14:00 to 17:45 at the latest, are the hours of the girls in the neighborhood. While Monday and Thursday late afternoon hours are the boys' hours in the library.

Jerusalem municipality has not given a response so far.

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