Parents keep children home for a month after asbestos found near suburban Tel Aviv school
The presence of the asbestos in the ground in the vicinity of the Paul Kor School in Petah Tikva was discovered during construction of a new road but was later found even closer to the school grounds. The parents say they learned of the problem by chance, but the municipality denies any wrongdoing
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The presence of the asbestos in the ground in the vicinity of the Paul Kor School in Petah Tikva was discovered during construction of a new road but was later found even closer to the school grounds. The parents say they learned of the problem by chance, but the municipality denies any wrongdoing
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12:13 AM • January 04 2026 IST
The parents of students at the Paul Kor elementary school in the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva kept their children home from school for a month after their parents learned by chance that asbestos had been found in the ground nearby.
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