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12/24/93
Jerusalem (JTA) — A peti-
tion filed last week with the
High Court of Justice
charges the Absorption Min-
istry with racism for restric-
ting favorable mortgages for
Ethiopian ohm in certain
cities.
The ministry currently
grants highly favorable mor-
tgages to Ethiopian immi-
grants for housing in a
number of cities, such as
Netanya.
But it withholds the mor-
tgages if the immigrants at-
tempt to settle elsewhere,
including cities where there
are already high concentra-
tions of Ethiopians, such as
Beersheba, Dimona and
Nazareth.
This, according to the peti-
tion, unfairly deprives Ethi-
opians of the right to choose
where they buy apartments.
Further, the petition,
which was filed by a resident
of Hod Hasharon, calls the
policy racist.
The Absorption Ministry is
defending its policies, saying
they are designed to promote
integration.
A spokesperson for the
ministry, who answered on
condition of anonymity,
refused to comment on the
pending court case.
But the spokesperson did
explain the ministry's mor-
tgage policy as it applies to
the Ethiopians.
"We restrict them for their
own good," said the
spokesperson.
The mortgage policy is one
of the ministry's "special in-
tegrative programs," and it
exists because "we don't
want Ethiopian ghettos,"
the spokesperson said.
The program steers the
immigrants into so-called
"stronger" cities that can
sustain the Ethiopian immi-
grants better because these
cities have "better facilities,
better education and better
jobs."
A "weak population" con-
centrated in a development
town "burdens the city," the
spokesperson said.
But the spokesperson in-
sisted that the immigrants
are nevertheless free to live
wherever they want.
The High Court has given
the Absorption Ministry 45
days to explain the rationale
behind its mortgage
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