Controversy
In 2007, Immanuel became the site of a dispute over the alleged discrimination of students at the state-funded Beit Yaakov girls' school involving the segregation between Ashkenazi and Sephardi students. The Israeli Supreme Court unanimously ruled in 2009 that it considered the division as a form of prejudice which should be abolished.
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