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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Interior minister says Holot migrant facility is full
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleInterior Minister Silvan Shalom says the facility that houses African asylum seekers in the south of the country will reach capacity in the coming days.
The Holot facility currently has 2,495 asylum seekers, Shalom says at the Galilee Conference in Acre.
“We’re working in every legal way to stem the infiltration,” Shalom is quoted as saying by the Walla news site.
Some 45,000 asylum seekers from war-torn African states are in Israel, most of them living in Eilat and Tel Aviv.
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