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Women line up outside a hybrid distribution site to collect food at a refugee camp in Maban, South Sudan on August 20, 2025. (Guy Peterson / AFP)
November 3, 2025, 12:51 pm
As world rises up for Gaza, Sudanese in Israel say larger catastrophe being ignored
With 150,000 dead since April 2023, scale of violence, famine, and disease in Sudan has dwarfed that of the Strip but garnered barely any world attention, fueling charges of racism
By Ariela Karmel
Nine-year-old Bena Hagdu holds injera bread at the Hannaton Educational Center at Kibbutz Hanaton, December 2023. (Omer Sharvit/ Zman)
January 15, 2024, 7:31 am
Ignored by the state, Eritreans from Sderot find temporary shelter in northern kibbutz
Asylum seekers find themselves displaced once again following the Oct. 7 massacre; deprived of government assistance due to bureaucracy, they rely on the kindness of others
By Omer Sharvit
African asylum seekers and activists protest against plans to deport migrants at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on March 24, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 2, 2023, 8:59 pm
Eritreans in Israel: Long neglected, divided amongst themselves and dividing society
A look at the community that makes up the majority of African migrants in Israel, many of them saying they are fleeing a brutal dictatorship
By ToI Staff
People cross the border from Sudan to South Sudan at the Joda border crossing in South Sudan on May 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, file)
June 14, 2023, 11:07 pm
UN says 2 million displaced in Sudan since beginning of conflict in April
Over 900 civilians have been killed and more than half a million have fled
By SAM MAGDY
Smoke rises in Khartoum, Sudan, April 29, 2023, as gunfire and heavy artillery fire continued despite the extension of a cease-fire between the country's two top generals. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)
May 21, 2023, 10:04 pm
Latest ceasefire in Sudan violated within hours, as humanitarian crisis worsens
The most recent truce, the first to be supported by a joint US-Saudi effort, is set to take effect on Monday evening, violence erupted in Khartoum within hours of its signing
By AFP
Then-interior minister Ayelet Shaked at a conference of the Srugim news website, in Jerusalem, on October 30, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
November 29, 2022, 2:22 pm
Interior minister orders expulsion of woman seeking asylum from genital mutilation
Despite refugee advisory board saying Sierra Leone citizen should be allowed to stay, Shaked says it would be ‘absurd’ to protect her when Israel allows male circumcision
By ToI Staff
In this Wednesday, January 17, 2018 file photo, Eritrean migrants wear chains to mimic slaves at a demonstration against the Israeli government's plan to forcibly deport African refugees and asylum seekers from Israel to Uganda and Rwanda, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem. (AP/Oded Balilty)
September 5, 2021, 6:01 am
Offered little hope, African migrants despair of Israel as a refuge
Unable to deport asylum seekers, Israel has instead left them in limbo with few rights; the new government has signaled it has no plans to change those policies anytime soon
By Sue Surkes
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
South Sudanese refugees protest against the Israeli immigration policy on June 10 (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
April 25, 2021, 6:37 pm
High Court orders state to consider Darfur asylum requests by end of year
Judges say that if government fails to mull applications, thousands of refugees who fled genocide must be granted temporary residency
By ToI Staff
A portrait of an asylum seeker who is part of the Kuchinate arts collective, exhibited for World Refugee Day, on June 19, 2020 (Courtesy Michael Topyol)
June 25, 2020, 7:03 pm
Asylum seekers featured in living color through portraits and baskets
Women from the Tel Aviv Kuchinate arts collective were photographed for World Refugee Day, now exhibited through June 30
By Jessica Steinberg
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
African migrants and their supporters demonstrate in Jerusalem on April 4, 2018, against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cancellation of an agreement with the UN aimed at avoiding forced deportations. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
April 23, 2020, 7:56 pm
In victory for asylum seekers, High Court repeals law taking 20% of their pay
Justices say requirement to put portion of salaries in special fund that workers can only access if they leave Israel is illegal, infringes their property rights
By Jacob Magid
Children using the safe water facility at IsraAID space in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. (Lior Sperandeo/IsraAID)
April 13, 2020, 4:10 am
Crowding, lack of water spell COVID-19 nightmare for world’s 71 million refugees
Unable to wash hands or practice social distancing, huge numbers of forcibly displaced people set to suffer from pandemic at disproportionate rates, Jewish humanitarian groups warn
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Hatikva Market in Tel Aviv on March 15, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 12, 2020, 5:46 am
To survive pandemic, migrants ask government to return money taken from them
With majority in their communities now unemployed and without government benefits, asylum seekers say law withholding 20% of their salaries will put families on the streets
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife, Sara (L) speak with reporters at Ben Gurion Airport, February 3, 2020 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
February 3, 2020, 6:46 am
Heading to Uganda for 1-day trip, PM hopes to bring back ‘very good news’
In Entebbe, Netanyahu to meet with president, other leaders whose identities are kept under wraps; Mossad chief said to join delegation
By Raphael Ahren
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