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Op-edA plea to the PM: Re-adopt the deal you hailed then rejected
How Netanyahu turned victory into all-around defeat in African migrant crisis
David Horovitz
David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu solved Israel's African asylum-seeker crisis. Twice over. And yet it is now utterly unresolved -- with negative consequences for the migrants themselves, for the veteran residents of south Tel Aviv where most of the Africans live, for Israel's moral choices and its reputation, for the well-being of the Supreme Court, and even for the standing of Netanyahu himself, who has managed to snatch defeat in every aspect of the crisis... Continue Reading
Students from Bialik School, in South Tel Aviv, many of them children of African asylum-seekers, attend a pre-Passover seder in the schoolyard on March 20, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
African asylum seekers protest against their deportation of asylum during a demonstration at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, March 24, 2018. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
March 27, 2018, 11:53 pm
Israel delays deportation of African migrants until after Passover
High Court agrees to a government request for more time in presenting state policies on removing thousands of asylum-seekers from the country
By JTA
African asylum seekers and activists protest against plans to deport migrants at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on March 24, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 26, 2018, 1:36 pm
Israel’s Passover responsibility
Most Israelis are united in their desire to treat those who have nowhere to go with basic human decency
By Naomi Chazan
Asylum seekers protest a government deportation plan in Tel Aviv, March 24, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
March 24, 2018, 8:55 pm
Over 20,000 rally in Tel Aviv in support of asylum seekers
Protest takes place ahead of court deadline this week for government decision on deportation plan; minister says job migrants will be sent away, kids and war refugees can stay
By TOI staff and Luke Tress
Protesters march in a demonstration in south Tel Aviv against Israel's planned deportation of African migrants and refugees, February 24, 2018. (Miriam Herschlag/ Times of Israel)
March 24, 2018, 8:23 pm
Anti-deportation activists report increasingly violent, threatening messages
Organizers of Saturday night rally in Tel Aviv against deportation of African asylum seekers see sharp uptick in verbal attacks and death threats on social media
By TOI staff
Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 8th Negev Conference in Dimona on March 20, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
March 20, 2018, 5:42 pm
Netanyahu says ‘flood’ of African migrants worse than Sinai terrorists
Prime minister says border wall only thing keeping vast numbers of illegal migrants out of country
By TOI staff
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (C) and judges Hana Meltzer and Niel Hendel arrive to hear an an appeal against deportation of African asylum seekers at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 15, 2018, 7:30 pm
High court temporarily halts deportation of African migrants
Court gives the government, which suspended the controversial plan Wednesday in advance of ruling, until March 26 to respond to petition
By TOI staff
People watch the annual Air Force flyover on Israel's 69th Independence Day in Jerusalem on May 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 14, 2018, 6:14 pm
Israel is 11th happiest nation in the world; US slides to 18th
Jewish state maintains its high ranking on list of 156 countries for fifth successive year, but gets less praise for attitude to migrants; Finland tops list, PA is at 104
By TOI staff and AP
Detained African migrants inside the Holot detention center, located in Israel's southern Negev desert near the Egyptian border, February 4, 2018. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)
March 14, 2018, 11:35 am
Reimagining Holot detention center
Turn it into a training center and improve the lot of migrants, their countries of origin, and Israel's role in this crisis
By Yosef Gotlieb
A group of South Sudanese refugees gather in Tel Aviv to protest against a deportation in June. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
March 4, 2018, 2:53 pm
A win-win approach to asylum seekers
Here's what rechanneling funds into improving South Tel Aviv and training African migrants would accomplish
By Sheldon Gellar
Illustrative image of African asylum seekers attending a memorial ceremony to commemorate 14 years since the genocide in Darfur, at Levinsky Park in southern Tel Aviv on Thursday, April 27 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 27, 2018, 8:35 pm
Jewish Agency urges Israel to grant asylum to 500 young African migrants
'These youngsters speak fluent Hebrew, are imbued with Israeli culture and are loyal to the State of Israel'
By TOI staff
Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond speaking at a press conference with members of the caucus and members of the House Judiciary Committee at the US Capitol, Jan. 18, 2018 (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
February 27, 2018, 7:32 pm
Congressional Black Caucus to urge Israel to end plans to deport migrants
Draft letter circulating among members calls on Jewish state to funnel Africans through existing international refugee processing systems
By JTA
African migrants march from Holot detention center to the Saharonim Prison, on February 22, 2018. (AFP / MENAHEM KAHANA)
February 23, 2018, 12:57 am
Former justice slams government treatment of African migrants
Elyakim Rubinstein 'struggles to understand' how only 12 asylum requests approved; hundreds of migrants go on hunger strike over deportation plan
By Michael Bachner and AFP
African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against the deportation plan, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, on February 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 20, 2018, 5:28 am
Canada voices concern to Israel over migrant expulsion
Canada, which takes in more African refugees from Israel than any other nation, says it is in touch with Jerusalem over plan to send the asylum seekers to a third country
By AFP
Eritrean demonstrators chanted "Refugees, not infiltrators" outside of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzilya on January 22, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
February 15, 2018, 3:49 pm
Court rules Eritrean draft dodgers eligible for asylum in Israel
As thousands await deportation, precedent-setting decision rules deserters in African country face 'well-founded fear of persecution' and should receive refugee status
By Dov Lieber
Meretz MK Michal Rozin reacts during Interior Affairs Committee meeting regarding the deportation of African asylum seekers at the Knesset on January 29, 2018. (Alster/Flash90)
February 9, 2018, 9:21 pm
Rwanda refuses to discuss migrants with visiting Israeli lawmakers
Opposition MKs Michal Rozin and Mossi Raz turned away by Kigali officials who say they won't be a 'playground' for internal Israeli politics
By AFP
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