Five-Year-Old Allegedly Left Outside Special-Needs Kindergarten in Ramla as Punishment

A disturbing incident is suspected at a special-education kindergarten in Ramla, where a 5-year-old boy was reportedly left outside the building as punishment and remained alone in the intense heat for about 40 minutes. In video recorded by a neighbor, the child can be heard crying out repeatedly, “It’s hot, it’s hot.”

The neighbor, identified as Shir Sheli, said she woke up to the screams, opened her balcony, and saw the boy shouting, “It’s hot, it’s hot.” She said she was shocked by what she saw and can be heard saying in the recording, “No, I can’t believe it. In this heat, to lock a child outside,” before deciding to intervene and go down to the scene.

The footage reached the boy’s mother, Hader Peretz, who described to the program “HaOlam HaBoker” the moment she learned what had happened. “The moment I opened the picture, I was simply in shock, what I saw, I felt tremors throughout my body,” she said. Peretz said it was the neighbor, Shir, who exposed the case after hearing the cries.

According to the report, the neighbor’s quick response and the video she captured brought the matter to the mother and the authorities, exposing what the article describes as a serious failure. The fact that this happened in a special-needs kindergarten makes the case especially severe, since such settings are meant to provide safety and extra protection for children who need it.