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Suspect arrested for murder of Sudanese national

On Friday fifteen foreign nationals were arrested by police for involvement in a knife brawl in which 10 Eritrean citizens were injured.

 Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea and pro regime activists clash with Israeli police in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023.
 INTERIOR MINISTER Ayelet Shaked. ‘I think we can agree that this is not the best look to which Israel can aspire,’ says the writer, referring to the denial of asylum to a woman fleeing female genital mutilation.

Israel should do better by its asylum seekers - opinion

Migrants protest their potential deportation with a mock slave auction outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv in 2018

As Sudan forges ties with Israel, what status do migrants have?

A boy takes part in a protest against the Israeli government's plan to deport African migrants, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 24, 2018.

NGO: State must protect rights of migrant mothers, children


Deputy FM says Israel can't monitor fate of African deportees

“We have to check what the High Court’s expectation is.”

South Sudanese man with suitcases prior to deportation

Government doesn’t meet High Court’s standard to deport migrants

“We have to check what the High Court’s expectation is.”

South Sudanese man with suitcases prior to deportation

Former Canadian official: Israel risks more damage if it deports migrants

"A Jewish and democratic state – which Israel is – can address and redress these problems, thereby reflecting and representing the best of our tradition and our democracy.”

African migrants take part in a protest against Israel's detention policy toward them

The debate over planned deportation of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals

Deporting people against their will to the countries they escaped from evokes strong and disturbing recollections of dark episodes in Jewish history.

AN ASYLUM seeker from Eritrea works on his laptop at his home in south Tel Aviv in 2017.

Israeli CEOs, tech entrepreneurs speak out against African deportations

Owners of Israel’s largest businesses have joined the call to oppose the measure.

Azrieli Center

Rabbis call for more accepting stance to African asylum seekers

Rabbi Hartman: Israel society becoming more xenophobic, calls rejection of asylum seekers embarrassing

African migrants take part in a protest against Israel's detention policy toward them

Editor's Notes: Setting immigration policy

The overall situation is not black and white – it is a complicated and delicate attempt to balance policy and values.

African migrants take part in a protest against Israel's detention policy toward them

African migrants and Israelis protest deportations in Jerusalem

Several Israelis attending the protest said it was inhumane to send "the refugees back to the horrors they ran from."

African migrants and Israelis protest deportations in Jerusalem

Chief Rabbi backs deportation for single, male African asylum-seekers

“We must remember the concept that ‘the poor of your city come first’ and that there are in the State of Israel many people who we need to pay attention to.”

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

Gov't in recruiting drive ahead of mass African asylum seeker deportation

The civilian inspectors will exclusively work for two years to identify and expel approximately 38,000 Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers.

African migrants take part in a protest against Israel's detention policy toward them