More than 40 rabbis from all streams of Judaism will hold a prayer vigil and pre-Shavuot study session at the Holot detention center for African migrants.
The program, organized by leaders of Rabbis for Human Rights, and supported by the New Israel Fund, is scheduled for Wednesday outside the open-detention facility in the Negev Desert.
African migrants protest outside Holot detention center in the Negev Desert, southern Israel on February 17, 2014. ( Photo credit: FLASH90)
The event was scheduled, according to organizers, “to mark Shavuot, our turning point from freed slaves to a nation in covenant with God, by demanding that Israel honor our most commanded mitzvah,” citing Leviticus 19:33-34 which calls on Jews to love the stranger.
The date also was chosen because 12 of the detainees are facing immediate deportation, according to Haaretz.
— JTA
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