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Topic: migrant workers

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

October 25, 2012
9:54 pm

Plan to detain asylum seekers not gov’t policy, State Attorney’s Office says

Eli Yishai’s October 15 ultimatum to Sudanese facing deportation has yet to go through appropriate legislative channels

By Philip Podolsky

August 30, 2012
2:31 am

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

Separate shelters for migrant workers in Netivot

Mayor denies talks of segregation, saying ‘it’s about protecting those people’

By Philip Podolsky

August 29, 2012
9:44 pm

Interior minister vows to jail Sudanese, Eritrean migrants

‘We’ll make their life in Israel hell so that they’ll wish to return to their countries of origin,’ says Eli Yishai

By Philip Podolsky

July 1, 2012
8:20 pm

Education Minister Gideon Saar has voiced support for allowing migrant workers' children enrolled in the Israeli school system to remain in Israel (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Dozens block Tel Aviv street corner to protest migrant child’s arrest

Six-year-old daughter of foreign workers from the Philippines held

By Yifa Yaakov

June 14, 2012
10:29 pm

Kfar Manda. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Following violence, Sudanese leave Arab Israeli town en masse

About 100 Sudanese pack up and leave Kfar Manda in northern Israel

By George Potter

June 4, 2012
2:06 am

Yair Lapid (photo credit: Roy Alima/Flash90)

Lapid wants detention camps, deportation for African migrants

Yesh Atid leader draws distinctions between Darfur refugees and migrant workers

By Asher Zeiger

May 30, 2012
1:50 pm

A wakeup call Israel must heed

The lack of a viable policy to deal with the illicit migrant population presents a significant human rights challenge, and highlights the fact that, at age 64, the Israeli political system remains a work in progress

By Ed Rettig

May 28, 2012
3:23 pm

A light unto the African nations?

Israel’s ‘special’ obligation to its illegal immigrants cannot trump its obligation toward its citizenry

By Gidon Ben-Zvi

April 29, 2012
10:24 am

A Tel Aviv kindergarten used by children of migrants and foreign workers suffered damage from a Molotov cocktail Friday (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Arrest made in Tel Aviv petrol bomb attacks

Young man apprehended for throwing Molotov cocktails at African refugees’ apartments

By Stuart Winer

April 27, 2012
10:00 pm

Molotov cocktails thrown at African migrant residences in Tel Aviv

Neighbors say attack was racially motivated

March 18, 2012
5:52 am

Sheik Ayed al-Abed and Mohammed al-Masri and Khazrail Ben-Yehuda talk in a meeting room in the southern Israeli city of Dimona. (photo credit: AP)

Israel’s Africans join forces to overcome difficulties

Government spokesman Regev: Israel has a zero-tolerance policy on racism

By Diaa Hadid

March 7, 2012
2:36 pm

Palestinian militants training in Gaza. Hamas is using a front organization to continue its attacks on Israel (photo credit: Mohammed Othman/Flash 90)

Hamas forms covert terror faction

Ynet: Al-Aqsa Defenders, responsible for recent rocket and bombing attacks, is just a front to continue aggressive action

February 29, 2012
4:49 pm

Shuafat, in northern Jerusalem, as viewed from the air. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Couple convicted for enslaving migrant worker

Shuafat couple faces up to 16 years behind bars for trapping Filipina in home

By Ilan Ben Zion

February 25, 2012
9:40 pm

Social activists and foreign workers take part in a protest in Tel Aviv Saturday against the Interior Ministry's decision to deport hundreds of families of foreign workers. (photo credit: Roni Shutzer/Flash90)

Hundreds protest detention of migrant laborers’ children

Families of migrant workers are slated for deportation in the coming month

By Ilan Ben Zion

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: migrant workers

Rights groups rebuke Israel for repatriating African migrants

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

Plan to detain asylum seekers not gov’t policy, State Attorney’s Office says

Eli Yishai’s October 15 ultimatum to Sudanese facing deportation has yet to go through appropriate legislative channels

Separate shelters for migrant workers in Netivot

Mayor denies talks of segregation, saying ‘it’s about protecting those people’

Interior minister vows to jail Sudanese, Eritrean migrants

‘We’ll make their life in Israel hell so that they’ll wish to return to their countries of origin,’ says Eli Yishai

Dozens block Tel Aviv street corner to protest migrant child’s arrest

Six-year-old daughter of foreign workers from the Philippines held

Following violence, Sudanese leave Arab Israeli town en masse

About 100 Sudanese pack up and leave Kfar Manda in northern Israel

Lapid wants detention camps, deportation for African migrants

Yesh Atid leader draws distinctions between Darfur refugees and migrant workers

A wakeup call Israel must heed

The lack of a viable policy to deal with the illicit migrant population presents a significant human rights challenge, and highlights the fact that, at age 64, the Israeli political system remains a work in progress

A light unto the African nations?

Israel’s ‘special’ obligation to its illegal immigrants cannot trump its obligation toward its citizenry

Arrest made in Tel Aviv petrol bomb attacks

Young man apprehended for throwing Molotov cocktails at African refugees’ apartments

Molotov cocktails thrown at African migrant residences in Tel Aviv

Neighbors say attack was racially motivated

Israel’s Africans join forces to overcome difficulties

Government spokesman Regev: Israel has a zero-tolerance policy on racism

Hamas forms covert terror faction

Ynet: Al-Aqsa Defenders, responsible for recent rocket and bombing attacks, is just a front to continue aggressive action

Couple convicted for enslaving migrant worker

Shuafat couple faces up to 16 years behind bars for trapping Filipina in home

Hundreds protest detention of migrant laborers’ children

Families of migrant workers are slated for deportation in the coming month

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