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Archive of important documents and letters - The ”secular coercion” polemic in the Yemenite settlement in Kfar Amka in the Galilee, in the early years of the state Dozens of letters, documents and certificates regarding the ”secular coercion” in Kfar  Amka, by the instructors appointed by the establishment, against the Yemenite residents who dared to insist on sending their sons to the Agudat Israel education, contrary to what the establishment wanted. Among the documents: A handwritten letter from the people of Kfar Amka to the Prime Minister and Ministers of Israel. 1st of Sivan 5710 [1950]. ”Mr. Pinchas came before us, ... [and said]: Listen, friends, if you will leave the village and get away from it when the automobiles come soon, then good for you. If not, then we will declare war on you...”, ”And now they want to take us out of the village, which we plowed and sowed, and they are starting to harvest... because we teach our children the Bible with teachers from the Agudat Yisrael Association.... Now please prepare our life situation according to the fact that we are now wandering like ostriches in the desert.” The names of the committee members are mentioned. A long and interesting letter, handwritten, about the inspection committee established by the Ministry of Education to address the complaints of the Yemenite residents of the place. A collection of documents and letters regarding the prevention of Mohel Jacob Flersheim's entry into Kfar Amka (the guide assigned to the residents prevented him from entering). Includes a letter bearing his signature, and a copy of a letter from David Ben-Gurion on this subject. 5710 (1950) A handsome handwritten document, ”Alienation of Mr. Nachum Chavinsky, Amka Guide, Western Galilee”. ”We were denied free of charge the work and the money we deserve without any fault of ours... only because of our affiliation in education to the Agudat Yisrael Association... and now we inform all the people of Israel... that we are without work and without money... according to what our instructors and all those who take care of us as we imagine They think of us as like animals of the field ... and we didn't know why the part of those who educate their children in the ultra-Orthodox education in Amka was separated from the rest of the residents of Israel.” Signed (in their handwriting?) four members of the Amka committee. A letter to the Prime Minister of Israel Mr. David Ben-Gurion and the ministers of Israel. 14th Tammuz 5710. Regarding the aforementioned complaint. Signed as above by the members of the committee. Copies (typewritten) of a painful and emotional letter from the committee of the residents of Amka to the Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion, in which they cry out: Why are some of us separated from the rest of the residents of Israel who can educate their children the way they want, and we are forced by threats and very strong pressure to send our children to the school that will lead our children to heresy.” 16th of Sivan 5710. background Amka is a settlement in the Western Galilee near the cities of Nahariya and Acre belonging to the Mateh Asher Regional Council. The settlement was established in 1949 by immigrants from Yemen. This is the first immigrant settlement in the region. A school of Ha'Peshet Ha'Dati was established in the village and next to it a school of Agudat Israel called ”Ahiezer”. According to the claim of the local residents, the village guides who were not satisfied with the existence of Agudat Israel's ”partisan” school, threatened 64 families among the immigrants from Yemen, who insisted that their sons receive an ultra-Orthodox education, that they would not receive work, medical care or the ability to purchase food at the grocery store . It is also claimed that an intimidation shot was fired at teachers and students. An inspection committee of the Ministry of Education investigated the matter but did not publish its conclusions. About 20 immigrant families who insisted on ultra-orthodox education were expelled from the moshav in early May 1950. The parents' complaints came up in May 1950 in the Knesset. The Prime Minister replied in June 1950 that the villagers were tired of the struggle between two religious schools and asked to appoint their own Yemenite teachers. In the school of Ha'Peshet Ha'Dati they agreed to this and in the school of Agudat Israel they refused. About this they wrote in the newspaper that most of the villagers responded to the threats with no choice. However, the conflict did not subside, and again in November 1950, the parents cried out that they were being denied an ultra-orthodox education. In January 1951, an agreement was signed on the evacuation of the families interested in ultra-Orthodox education from Amka and their transfer to another place. The bitter conflict left deep scars on all involved, and expressed the tension between the ultra-orthodox and the establishment,