Refugees in israel

Decapitated mannequins placed at houses of judges, Tel Aviv mayor, in protest of illegal immigrants

The mannequins also had messages expressing discontent with the current state of illegal immigrants in Israel, claiming that they are the cause of a rise in violent crime rates.

Protests against illegal immigration in Tel Aviv.
 A damaged sign is pictured at the headquarters of UNRWA following an Israeli raid in Gaza City, on July 12, 2024.

UNRWA operations in east Jerusalem set to end, concerns continue

 Posing outside the Dan Jerusalem Hotel (L-R): Herzl Shriki and his daughter Tamar, Shelly Dadia, Leah and Marc Hersch, Shalom Chayut, and Yosef Tzarfati.

Home Sweet (not) Home: The displaced residents of northern Israel

 Northern Israelis, evacuated from their homes following the war, protesting demanding the government to return them to their homes, in central Jerusalem, May 16, 2024

'Government is destroying the North': Local leaders say citizens will leave without solution


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.

Why force deportation when there are better options?

Asylum-seekers can provide Israelis with greater understanding of African conditions and culture needed for Israel to promote development, expand trade, and make friends in Africa.

CHILDREN OF African asylum seekers play on a Tel Aviv beach on Independence Day

Holocaust survivors offer shelter as asylum crisis rages

Expulsion is a ‘violation of ethical standards,’ write doctors in letter.

An African refugee in south Tel Aviv wears a T-shirt with a Hebrew phrase referring to the Holocaust: “I promise to remember... and never forget!” (Reuters)

El Al pilots refuse to fly deported African refugees to dangerous country

‘The refugees should remain and be treated as human beings - just as the Jews used to be refugees and wanted to be treated like human beings and not thrown out.'

An African refugee in south Tel Aviv wears a T-shirt with a Hebrew phrase referring to the Holocaust: “I promise to remember... and never forget!”

Rabbis launch movement to protect African migrants from deportation

Nearly 500 college professors sent an open letter condemning the government’s refugee plan

A RALLY in Jerusalem for African migrants in 2014.

Activists ask Israeli pilots to ‘refuse to fly refugees to their deaths’

‘We call on Israeli pilots to stand on the right side of history,’ says the petition.

An African migrant wears a T-shirt with a Hebrew phrase referring to the Holocaust," I promise to remember... and never forget!" in south Tel Aviv July 17, 2013.

The Fifth Column: Let’s not cast away our refugees and our heritage

Israel is creating an abomination, and over the next few weeks it plans to create a much-larger one.

A RALLY in Jerusalem for African migrants in 2014.

My Word: UNRWA’s unsettling impact

UNRWA has done nothing to build a sustainable, peaceful Palestinian state.

A MAN STANDS next to a cart carrying a sack of flour distributed by UNRWA in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in January, 2018.

Taking in African refugees is a privilege

The debate about African migrants in Israel kicked off as early as 2005 when asylum seekers began making the treacherous journey through the Sinai desert into Israel.

African migrants gesture behind a fence during a protest against Israel's detention policy towards them