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Italian Coast Guard ship Bruno Gregoretti, carrying survivors of the boat that overturned off the coasts of Libya Saturday, arrives at Catania Harbor, Italy, Monday, April 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi)
September 15, 2016, 4:33 pm
UN says 235,000 migrants ready to flee Libya for Italy
Country in turmoil since 2011 civil war; lists of people waiting for chance to leave via dangerous Mediterranean crossing
By AFP
African migrants protest outside the Holot detention center in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, February 17, 2014. (Flash90)
September 6, 2016, 9:11 am
State to appeal ruling on Eritreans’ right to asylum
Interior Ministry slams 'grave and untrue' court decision that Israel may be contravening UN Refugee Convention
By Sue Surkes
First grade students seen on their first day of school at a school in Ma'ale Adumim, September 1, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 1, 2016, 11:06 am
More than 2 million Israeli kids head back to school
2016-17 academic year begins 'as planned,' despite strike in Tira, protests against institution for migrant children in Tel Aviv
By TOI staff
Five-day-old twins were among 6,500 people rescued from the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast on August 30, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)
August 30, 2016, 7:10 pm
5-day-old twins among refugees saved off Libyan coast
Italian navy and NGOs pluck 6,500 from Mediterranean; migrant boats had just enough fuel to reach rescue ships
By AP
Children from families of African migrants gather at a so-called day-care center in southern Tel Aviv, on May 28, 2015. (Jack Guez/AFP)
August 23, 2016, 7:53 pm
Volunteers surge to help South Tel Aviv kids after soldiers are told to stop
Activist organization fields dozens of offers after defense minister bans IDF members from working with African migrant children
By Melanie Lidman
An African asylum seeker sits in a makeshift outdoor camp near Israel's Nitzana border crossing with Egypt on June 28, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)
August 20, 2016, 10:43 pm
Sudan: Egypt arrested 70 Sudanese en route to Israel
Khartoum says its Cairo embassy is in contact with authorities on the status and treatment of the detainees
By AP and TOI staff
Former Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at the 2016 Israel Medical Conference, at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem on August 16, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 16, 2016, 9:02 pm
Ya’alon says leadership exaggerating threats, ‘scaring’ Israeli citizens
Ex-defense minister takes aim at Avigdor Liberman, accusing him of trying to make headlines at expense of IDF chief
By TOI staff
Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 14, 2016, 10:09 pm
Deputy defense minister: African migrants don’t need helping hand
Eli Ben Dahan hails decision barring soldiers from aiding refugees in Tel Aviv, says IDF should focus on programs 'that benefit Israelis'
By Tamar Pileggi
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during an Israel Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset on June 6, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 14, 2016, 11:04 am
Defense minister ordered end to soldiers helping migrant kids
Liberman reportedly told IDF chief of staff that servicemembers should volunteer with 'Holocaust survivors or the needy' instead
By Raoul Wootliff
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a press conference after a session of the EU Parliament in Brussels on June 22, 2016. (AFP Photo/John Thys)
August 9, 2016, 8:02 pm
Rivlin backs soldiers over ban on working with refugee children
Army stops activities with illegal migrants, but president says it is 'not a sin for soldiers to lend a hand to the helpless'
By TOI staff
Children from families of African migrants gather at a so-called day-care center in southern Tel Aviv, on May 28, 2015. (Jack Guez/AFP)
August 9, 2016, 2:24 am
Army bars soldiers from volunteering with migrant kids
Military says it is examining matter after south Tel Aviv residents complain it is supporting illegal immigration
By TOI staff
In this photo taken in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan coast, Friday, May 27, 2016 rescuers help migrants to board the Italian Navy ship Vega, after the boat they were aboard sunk.(Raffaele Martino/Marina Militare via AP Photo)
May 29, 2016, 4:54 pm
Up to 700 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean this week
UN refugee agency says 3 smuggling ships carrying migrants trying to reach Europe have capsized off Italy's southern coast
By Sarah El Deeb
In this Saturday, May 7, 2016 photo, Eritrean Christian Orthodox migrants attend a mass at a makeshift church in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
May 19, 2016, 10:39 pm
Eritrean migrants find escape in Tel Aviv church
Makeshift center of worship provides spiritual relief to hundreds of migrants facing hardship in Israel
By Oded Balilty
Picture taken on May 6, 2016 shows a block of the "Alfons-Petzold-Hof" council housing, built between the wars in Simmering, the working class district of Vienna governed for almost a century by the left but since last year by the far-right. (AFP /Joe Klamar)
May 7, 2016, 7:00 am
Even in Vienna’s socialist utopia, Austria’s far-right reigns
District of Simmering, once considered a left-wing haven, became first part of capital to be run by populist Freedom Party
By AFP
The border fence between Israel and Egypt, January 02, 2012. (Moshe Milner/GPO/FLASH90)
March 16, 2016, 9:12 am
Israel seeks to block African migrants with higher fence
Defense Ministry reportedly wants to prevent ladders being used to cross barrier along Egyptian border
By JTA
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