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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

African Refugee Development Center

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Abir Sultan)
September 3, 2017, 2:33 pm
Netanyahu: Most African migrants in Israel ‘not refugees’
As Israel steps up efforts at deportation, prime minister asserts majority of the mostly Eritrean and Sudanese nationals came here to ‘look for jobs’
By Tamar Pileggi
Sudanese refugees demonstrate in front of the Knesset in protest of the new "Holot" detention camp for illegal migrants, on Monday, December 17, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 27, 2016, 12:45 am
After 3,165 requests, first Sudanese man gets Israeli refugee status
Mutasim Ali, 29, an activist from Darfur who arrived in 2009, says he hopes decision is a turning point, but official says it isn’t
By Melanie Lidman
African migrants walk out of the Holot detention center in the Negev desert in southern Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
August 30, 2015, 7:12 pm
Out of Israeli detention, an asylum seeker seeks a better future
Following a court order, the government freed Adam Youssef from Holot with 80 shekels in his pocket. What will he do now?
By Simona Weinglass
An artist's rendition of what Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station could look like after it is revitalized as a center for urban ecology. (illustration courtesy: Dana Mor/Onya Collective)
January 18, 2015, 5:49 am
In Tel Aviv, a concrete elephant goes from blight to bloom
Local activists are slowly turning TA’s giant, long neglected Central Bus Station into an oasis of urban ecology
By Melanie Lidman
Eritrean refugees in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Nicky Kelvin/Flash90)
July 3, 2013, 3:46 am
Would-be refugees hit the dance floor, so they can later hit the books
A Tel Aviv party for African asylum seekers will, for the price of a cocktail, give someone the ticket to a higher education
By Debra Kamin
Anna Rose Siegel
February 3, 2013, 5:40 pm
Anna Rose Siegel
African refugees ponder election results
There’s cautious optimism as values-driven parties get set to step into government
Aaron Frazer speaking at the Livnota b'esh (build it by fire) barbecue to promote conversations between African refugees and Israelis at the Levinsky Park Thursday (photo credit: MIchal Shmulovich)
July 29, 2012, 5:22 pm
A celebratory meal, for Tisha B’Av, with African asylum-seekers?
Idealists young and old, foreign and local, reach out to a group of Sudanese migrants in the Tel Aviv park they call home
By Michal Shmulovich
A protest against African migrants in Tel Aviv in April. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 24, 2012, 12:03 pm
In Tel Aviv, an incendiary mix of African migrants and locals who want them gone
Criminal incidents linked to Israel’s ballooning 70,000 migrant population trigger an outpouring of anger and fear
By Matti Friedman
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