{"id":95211,"date":"2026-05-03T07:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/95211\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:22:17","slug":"over-80-israeli-children-found-in-illegal-thai-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/95211\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 80 Israeli children found in illegal Thai school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An illegally run childcare center on the island of Koh Pha Ngan in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/thailand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thailand<\/a> was found to be caring for 89 Israeli children, local media reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The school, Arki Kid, was licensed to care for up to 18 children of ages 2-5. The 89 Israeli children were found during a raid on the school, and ranged between 2 and 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The school was run by a 61-year-old Thai woman, Prathumthip Yu-in, along with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-894779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iranian<\/a> couple, Aidin Kishipoor and Ndin Kishipoor, both 45 years old. All three were accused of &#8220;employing foreign nationals without work permits, failing to notify the registrar within 15 days of hiring foreign workers, operating a childcare center in breach of the Child Protection Act and related regulations, and establishing a non-formal private school without permission,&#8221;\u00a0The Nation reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Several other employees of the school were also arrested for various related offenses, including working without work permits, and not divulging the nature of their employment to the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Nation reported that the raid on the school occurred after complaints on social media about Israelis operating illegal businesses in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Several recent incidents in Thailand have reflected a growing wave of anti-Israeli sentiments, including the arrest of Israelis committing various crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In February, three Israelis were attacked at a bar in Koh Samui, after they were overheard speaking Hebrew, according to social media reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-893406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">French<\/a> tourists reportedly chased them into the restroom, forced the door open, and demanded they turn over the contents of their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident that same month, an Israeli was arrested by Thai authorities after being caught with over 50 million baht (five million shekels) worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-893397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">drugs<\/a>, the Bangkok Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>Maya Zanger-Nadis contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An illegally run childcare center on the island of Koh Pha Ngan in Thailand was found to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[33529,5574,1105,37,2421,7890],"class_list":{"0":"post-95211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-childcare","9":"tag-children","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israelis","13":"tag-thailand"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116509444823241226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}