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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

African migrants

Activist Sheffi Paz, center, surrounded by supporters as she arrives at Neve Tirtza Women's Prison in Ramle to serve her sentence over convictions of vandalism, on November 14, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 14, 2024, 3:05 pm
Defiant anti-migrant activist Sheffi Paz goes to jail, lauded as hero by far-right MKs
South Tel Aviv resident begins 45-day sentence for vandalizing EU mission, other sites; ministers say sentence is ‘selective enforcement’ not applied to anti-government protesters
By ToI Staff
Israeli-born children of African migrants and asylum-seekers protest against segregated education in Tel Aviv, September 1, 2021, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv. (Courtesy, Levinsky Garden Library)
June 18, 2024, 7:19 am
First year of integrating migrant children with Israelis in Tel Aviv schools ‘a success’
Municipality, Education Ministry announced integration pilot for first-graders days before High Court was to discuss petition against segregation
By Sue Surkes
Elon Musk at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on June 16, 2023. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
September 30, 2023, 2:04 pm
Musk wades into German political debate over migrant ‘invasion’
Billionaire reposts article on German efforts to save migrants in the Mediterranean with call for far-right party to win regional elections, is rebuked by Berlin
By AFP
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby delivers his speech at the interreligious meeting 'Brother peoples, future land' organized by the Sant'Egidio Community at 'La Nuvola' (The Cloud) convention center in Rome, on October 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
April 17, 2022, 3:52 pm
Archbishop of Canterbury: UK plan to send refugees to Rwanda goes against God
Justin Welby cites ‘serious ethical questions about sending asylum-seekers overseas’ as he makes unusual political intervention during Easter sermon
By Jill Lawless
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, in the United Kingdom, on board a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel, April 13, 2022. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)
April 15, 2022, 8:17 am
Israel precedent prompts outrage as UK plans to send refugees to Rwanda
Boris Johnson says move, which is similar to scheme adopted by Jewish state, is aimed at stopping ‘vile people smugglers’ from turning British Channel into ‘watery graveyard’
By Jill Lawless
Illustrative: A wooden boat with 28 refugees from Africa and Magreb is rescued by Open Arms NGO, some 45 nautical miles away from the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)
April 3, 2022, 4:22 pm
More than 90 Libyan migrants drown in Mediterranean, says aid group
Oil tanker rescues four people from North Africa but returns them to Libya, according to Doctors Without Borders
By Samy Magdy
Israeli soldiers stand guard after firing flares above the northern town of Metulla, by the border with Lebanon, following a pro-Palestinian protest across the border in the Lebanese Khiam area, on May 14, 2021 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
January 1, 2022, 1:41 am
IDF nabs two men crossing the border from Lebanon
Infiltrators said to be Sudanese migrants seeking work, not terror suspects
By ToI Staff
South Tel Aviv resident and activist Sheffi Paz speaks during a visit of Ayelet Shaked in south Tel Aviv on April 2, 2019. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
August 18, 2021, 2:39 pm
Knesset speaker bans anti-migrant activist who called for MK’s execution
When Meretz’s Gaby Lasky said Afghan refugees should be let into Israel, Sheffi Paz said she and her ilk should be put before a firing squad
By ToI Staff
Dawit Tekelaeb, left, and Daniel Gad star in the Israeli Oscar contender 'White Eye.' (Tomer Shushan via JTA)
March 15, 2021, 5:18 pm
Israeli short film ‘White Eye’ focusing on African migrants nominated for Oscar
Director Tomer Shushan’s 20-minute movie, shot in one take and revolving around a stolen bicycle, alleges Israelis are blind to racial bias in the country
By ToI Staff and JTA
South Tel Aviv resident and activist Sheffi Paz speaks during a visit of Ayelet Shaked in south Tel Aviv on April 2, 2019. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
July 10, 2020, 10:16 am
Anti-migrant activist briefly arrested over vandalism near chief justice’s home
‘Esther Hayut, you buried Zionism,’ reads graffiti; Sheffi Paz later released on bail, has previously admitted to placing threatening stickers on mailbox of another top judge
By ToI Staff
View of the border fence between Israel and Lebanon in northern Israel, February 16, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
June 23, 2020, 12:03 pm
Sudanese jobless in Lebanon risk lives to try to cross border into Israel
Local economic crisis is pushing some to attempt perilous crossing over heavily guarded frontier in the hope of finding employment and a better life
By Bachir El Khoury and Rosie SCAMMELL
Ghebrehiwet Meles in Tel Aviv on May 27, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
June 20, 2020, 12:20 pm
After 13 years, Eritrean asylum seeker was granted resettlement. Then came COVID
Closing of skies freezes Gary Meles’ plans to move family to Canada, where they’d finally be able to receive recognition as refugees
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: Sudanese demonstrate in support of their people in South Tel Aviv, June 30, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 18, 2020, 4:41 am
Satisfied Sudan migrant inspires new attempts to cross into Israel from Lebanon
January border infiltrator was allowed to stay, and has been posting on social media about jobs available in Israel as Lebanese financial crisis worsens, TV report says
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
Lebanese soldiers and UNIFIL peacekeepers watch from the southern Lebanese village of Adaisseh, as IDF Merkava tanks take part in routine maneuvers near the border demarcation line, near Kibbutz Misgav Am, on June 2, 2020. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)
June 17, 2020, 10:27 am
IDF detains Sudanese migrant who crossed into Israel from Lebanon
As Lebanese financial crisis worsens, laid-off foreign workers increasingly seek employment in the Jewish state
By Judah Ari Gross
South Tel Aviv anti-migrant activist Sheffi Paz speaks during a demonstration outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, on November 9, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 15, 2020, 9:53 pm
Anti-migrant activist admits being behind alleged threat to Supreme Court judge
South Tel Aviv resident Sheffi Paz says she plastered stickers outside home of Justice Uzi Vogelman, who filed police complaint, but she denies it was intended to be threatening
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
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