The Haifa District Court has struck down, at the threshold stage, an administrative petition filed by the "Tzlilei Chinuch" (Sounds of Education) association against the Harish municipality, ruling that the dispute between the parties does not fall within the jurisdiction of the administrative courts and must instead be litigated in a civil proceeding. The decision was first reported by Migdalor News.
The petition was filed after the municipality decided to end its engagement with the association, which operates daycare centers in the city. According to the reports, the background includes the municipality's claim of a fundamental breach of the agreement, after a structure of roughly 120 square meters was built without a permit on land belonging to the city; a demolition order was issued for the structure, and the municipality moved to wind down the engagement. The association, for its part, challenged the municipality's decision-making process in court.
With the administrative petition erased, the substantive claims on both sides — contractual and otherwise — would need to be examined, if pursued, in a civil lawsuit rather than through judicial review of the municipality's conduct.
For parents whose children attend the association's frameworks, the practical implications will depend on how the wind-down of the municipal engagement proceeds and on any interim arrangements the sides reach. The municipality has framed its decisions as protecting municipal assets and the orderly operation of early-childhood services in the city.
Source: חדשות חריש 1️⃣ WhatsApp news group (first reported by Migdalor News)
