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Topic: Eritrean refugees

April 21, 2013
9:38 pm

Hatnua MK Elazar Stern, right, after being attacked during a tour of Tel Aviv's southern neighborhoods Sunday, April 21. (photo credit: image capture/Channel 2)

MK attacked in south Tel Aviv

Elazar Stern assaulted by Eritrean immigrant while touring neighborhood to learn about social problems

By Aaron Kalman

April 10, 2013
9:49 pm

African foreign workers looking for work in a corner street in Ashkelon. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Five arrested for attacking Ethiopians

From the web Police believe assailants were motivated by racism, mistook Ethiopian Israelis for African migrants, Ynet reports

February 27, 2013
3:49 am

African migrants protest against the government's deportation policy in April (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Rights groups rebuke Israel for repatriating African migrants

Government says departures are voluntary, but asylum seekers claim they’re pressured to leave

By Daniel Estrin

February 25, 2013
9:30 am

Eritrean migrants in South Tel Aviv (photo credit: Nicky Kelvin/Flash90)

UN rep says Eritreans being forced out of Israel

Jerusalem accused of violating international law with repatriation of asylum seekers under threat of lengthy jail terms

By Asher Zeiger

February 15, 2013
12:22 pm

Orel Ben Ari, left, the head of the Tel Aviv Refugee Clinic (the Public Clinic), pictured with a young Eritrean man who had fled to Israel after sustaining several physical and emotional traumas in Egypt, including the loss of his hand, before being granted asylum in Europe. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Volunteer medical clinic for migrants gets big boost from government

State funding expands an idealist’s healthcare project that is partly humanitarian, promises to stem overcrowding in hospitals, can help Israel’s image, and will probably save money

By Michal Shmulovich

January 2, 2013
6:09 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends on Wednesday the ceremony marking the completion of the main section of the Israeli-Egyptian border fence (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/FLASH90)

Hailing completion of main part of Egypt border fence, PM vows to send home migrants already in Israel

Netanyahu says Israel has ‘achieved the impossible’ by building 142-mile fence to keep out terrorists, smugglers, and migrants

By Michal Shmulovich

January 2, 2013
2:55 pm

When ‘should I stay or should I go’ is a life or death question

The Israeli government has figured out how to get rid of Sudanese refugees without really deporting them

By Mollie Gerver

December 20, 2012
3:06 pm

Illustration of a mobile phone on a desk. (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash 90)

Police pin cell phone theft hike on migrants

Report shows 93 percent rise in number of stolen cell phones

By Stuart Winer

September 30, 2012
3:40 pm

Israel’s African ‘ushpizin’ — welcome or unwanted?

The custom of according succor to the other is an integral part of the Jewish tradition, and the Jewish state has been consistently defying it

By Naomi Chazan

September 12, 2012
9:00 pm

Israeli soldiers stand guard on Tuesday as Eritrean asylum seekers sit on the ground behind a border fence, after they attempted to cross illegally from Egypt into Israel. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

New testimony shows Eritreans pleaded with Israel to not be forced back into Egypt

Maariv reports that accounts of migrants stuck at the border, given by 3 Eritreans let into Israel, contradict claims government made last week

By Michal Shmulovich

September 7, 2012
12:43 pm

An IDF solider patrols the Egyptian border in 2011 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

50 fateful days

Tzachi Hanegbi ponders the coming months and the decision on Iran; border crisis is resolved

By Yossi Nachemi

September 6, 2012
6:50 pm

Israel allows in two women, one youth stuck on Sinai border

After eight days camped out on the border with Egypt, three of 21 stranded Eritreans given permission to come in

By Yifa Yaakov and Times of Israel staff

September 6, 2012
11:23 am

Doctors barred from accessing Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ petitions High Court to allow asylum seekers to enter; second hearing set for Sunday

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

September 6, 2012
7:15 am

High Court to hear petition on behalf of Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ seeks order granting asylum seekers entry into country

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

September 5, 2012
3:06 pm

Dozens of African migrants cross into southern Israel through the border with Egypt in 2010. (photo credit: AP/Assaf Golan)

Eritreans stuck at Egyptian border won’t be allowed in, interior minister says

20 migrants, caught between two sets of barriers, left in sun for six days

By Michal Shmulovich

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Eritrean refugees

MK attacked in south Tel Aviv

Elazar Stern assaulted by Eritrean immigrant while touring neighborhood to learn about social problems

Five arrested for attacking Ethiopians

From the web Police believe assailants were motivated by racism, mistook Ethiopian Israelis for African migrants, Ynet reports

Rights groups rebuke Israel for repatriating African migrants

Government says departures are voluntary, but asylum seekers claim they’re pressured to leave

UN rep says Eritreans being forced out of Israel

Jerusalem accused of violating international law with repatriation of asylum seekers under threat of lengthy jail terms

Volunteer medical clinic for migrants gets big boost from government

State funding expands an idealist’s healthcare project that is partly humanitarian, promises to stem overcrowding in hospitals, can help Israel’s image, and will probably save money

Hailing completion of main part of Egypt border fence, PM vows to send home migrants already in Israel

Netanyahu says Israel has ‘achieved the impossible’ by building 142-mile fence to keep out terrorists, smugglers, and migrants

When ‘should I stay or should I go’ is a life or death question

The Israeli government has figured out how to get rid of Sudanese refugees without really deporting them

Police pin cell phone theft hike on migrants

Report shows 93 percent rise in number of stolen cell phones

Israel’s African ‘ushpizin’ — welcome or unwanted?

The custom of according succor to the other is an integral part of the Jewish tradition, and the Jewish state has been consistently defying it

New testimony shows Eritreans pleaded with Israel to not be forced back into Egypt

Maariv reports that accounts of migrants stuck at the border, given by 3 Eritreans let into Israel, contradict claims government made last week

50 fateful days

Tzachi Hanegbi ponders the coming months and the decision on Iran; border crisis is resolved

Israel allows in two women, one youth stuck on Sinai border

After eight days camped out on the border with Egypt, three of 21 stranded Eritreans given permission to come in

Doctors barred from accessing Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ petitions High Court to allow asylum seekers to enter; second hearing set for Sunday

High Court to hear petition on behalf of Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ seeks order granting asylum seekers entry into country

Eritreans stuck at Egyptian border won’t be allowed in, interior minister says

20 migrants, caught between two sets of barriers, left in sun for six days

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