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Foreign minors arrested for Tel Aviv stabbing as police continue illegal immigrant crackdown

Close to midnight, police received a report that the victim had been attacked as he exited a restaurant. Police arrived at the scene and caught the two suspects a few streets away from the incident.

POLICE ARREST suspect thought to have allowed illegal immigrants through border, November 30, 2025.
 Border police troops conduct large-scale operation to thwart illegal immigration to Israel. September 29, 2024.

Indictment filed against security guards who allowed illegal immigrants into Israel

POLICE SHUT down a construction site in Bat Yam which employed an illegal immigrant, December 30, 2025.

Eight businesses employing over 50 illegal immigrants closed in police crackdown

AN OFFICER during Operation 'New Order' on December 31, 2025.

Police make arrests in Bedouin community, find stolen IDF weapons in Rahat kindergarten


New tax in Israel leaves African migrants feeling unwanted and unwelcome

New tax rules force employers to put part of migrants' salaries in a fund which can only be accessed once they leave Israel.

African migrants in Tel Aviv

‘Life in South Tel Aviv has become unbearable’

Lawmakers and residents protest against migrant presence in city.

An African migrant worker sleeps on a bench of a bus station in south Tel Aviv

UN ambassadors visit Israeli settlement

Danny Danon says he wanted group "to have knowledge, be objective, and judge for themselves."

AMBASSADOR TO THE UN Danny Danon (second left), Guatemalan Ambassador to the UN Jorge Skinner-Klee and Ma’aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel discuss a map in Ma’aleh Adumim last week

NGO: Special migrant courts significantly defective

Prior to May 2014, there were special migrant courts but appeals from those courts went up to standard civilian District Courts, ensuring that poor decisions were reviewed at a high level.

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

Cabinet okays step to encourage illegal workers to leave by choice

“Now that we have almost completely stopped the infiltration phenomenon to Israel we need to continue to work to move forward ways to get those in the country to leave,” says Netanyahu.

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

NGO cites serious shortcoming in treatment of detained migrants by Israel

At several detention centers, many migrants did not even know they had access to healthcare.

The Holot Detention Facility in the Negev.

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 votes on amendment to anti-infiltration law

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) said Monday that he expects the amendment to be brought for its second and third readings in the coming days.

The Knesset plenum

Migrant caregivers’ ‘#OurHands Campaign’

Organizations around the world are now rallying through a campaign called “Our Hands” to share information with domestic workers and encourage collective mobilization.

An African migrant worker sleeps on a bench of a bus station in south Tel Aviv

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