The issue of discrimination in Haredi schools is in the news again, as it was announced a few days ago that x number of girls have been left without seminarys to attend in the coming school year. Their applications were rejected and, allegedly because they are sefardim, no amount of maneuvering has been successful in getting them placed in the regular schools.

The Ministry of Education has stepped in, various rabbonim have weighed in with their opinions of not letting the MoE have any say in the matter, and various haredi MKs are trying to find solutions, etc - the regular spiel that happens every year when sefardi girls are rejected and left with no school.

Rav Elyashiv, while taking into account that he spoke harshly against allowing the Ministry of Education to meddle in to Haredi rules and schools, had something interesting to say about the discrimination itself.

Kikar is reporting that Rav Elyashiv said that any administrator of a school that takes money from the government for the school and refuses to accept a girl who is sefardic is a thief. Rav Elyashiv said that once he takes money from the government, that is public funding and the sefardim are part of the public. The administrator no longer has the right to reject a girl because she is sefardic.