Holot

Two separate vehicle accidents across Israel leave at least one dead, 14 injured

One person died and seven others were injured in a crash in northern Israel, and seven others were injured in a three-vehicle collision on Highway 4.

 Magen David Adom teams at the scene of the car accident on Route 4 near the Holon Interchange. March 28, 2025.
African migrants sit at the Holot open detention center in the Negev in Southern Israel

Analysis: What is the point of the override clause if it goes unused?

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from Holot detention centre in Israel's southern Negev desert August 25, 2015.

Reopening Holot is ‘yet another spin,’ setting us back years, NGO says

African asylum seekers wait to apply for a visa in Bnei Brak, Israel

How a Jewish country should not deal with asylum seekers


Netanyahu: It is time to deport African migrants

Netanyahu was discussing an initiative announced last week by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Interior Minister Arye Deri to close Holot, an “open” detention center.

African migrants sit at the Holot open detention center in the Negev in Southern Israel

L’école de l’espoir

Un centre d’études pour migrants africains tente de renverser le cours de la fatalité

Des réfugiés à l'issue de leur cursus au sein de SchoolHouse

3 months to permit Holot migrants personal items, High Court tells state

“The decision clarifies to the state that it must treat the asylum seekers in Holot with dignity."

AFRICAN REFUGEES are seen leaving the Holot detention facility.

Passover Seder conducted for African detainees in Negev detention center

“As Jews, we can’t ignore what is happening here and celebrate our freedom at Passover when there are people who don’t have their own freedom in this country.”

A Passover seder at Holot Detention Center.

Israel grants first Darfuri refugee status, after year of legal battles

Mutasim Ali becomes the first Darfuri to attain such status in Israel under the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Mutasim Ali

Activists hold Seder for African asylum-seekers at Holot facility

Rabbis for Human Rights leads festival of freedom ritual

AFRICAN DETAINEES at the Holot detention center in the Negev celebrate a pre-Passover Seder on Friday initiated by Rabbis for Human Rights and Right Now: Advocates for Asylum Seekers in Israel

Eritrean survivor of Tel Aviv hate crime fights to stay out of Holot

Fetwi Yoseif saw his toddler cousin stabbed repeatedly in the head.

AFRICAN REFUGEES are seen leaving the Holot detention facility.

Knesset lowers maximum migrant detention in Holot to 12 months

The change follows the Supreme Court’s strike down of a 20-month maximum that had been allowed under a previous amendment.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from the Holot detention center in the Negev

Knesset approves bill to limit migrant detention to 12 months

New amendment to the anti-infiltration law passes 20 to 12 in first parliamentary reading, which would allow the jailing of African migrants in “Holot” detention center, but limits time of detention.

AFRICAN MIGRANTS sit on pipes outside Holot, a detention centre in Israel’s southern Negev desert.

Analysis: Senior Eritrean Church official stuck in bureaucratic limbo over detention

Father Semere summoned to Holot detention center.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from the Holot detention center in the Negev