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Africans in Israel

Endalkew Yemani Tesma faces the possibility of deportation. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)
August 29, 2026, 11:20 am
Israel’s Ethiopian asylum seekers built a life in the country. Now they’re fighting to stay
145 years after its establishment to help Jews flee pogroms, HIAS is among groups trying to protect refugees from a system that virtually guarantees their eventual deportation
By Theia Chatelle
Naomi Chazan
January 15, 2018, 12:43 pm
Naomi Chazan
Africans, back to those shithole countries for you
Deporting African asylum-seekers is abhorrent, un-Jewish, and reverses recent strides in Israel-Africa relations
Naomi Chazan
December 4, 2017, 8:17 am
Naomi Chazan
What is Israel doing in Africa?
If Israelis would get to know the continent to their south, a lasting relationship could then be in the works
An African illegal migrant walks with an Israeli flag, following his release from the Holot Detention Centre in Israel's Negev desert, on August 25, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA)
August 26, 2015, 4:01 pm
Israel frees hundreds more African migrants from detention
Second wave of refugees and asylum seekers held for over a year at Holot facility are released, but banned from Tel Aviv, Eilat
By AFP and ToI Staff
African migrants carry their belongings following their release from the Holot Detention Center in the Negev desert, on August 25, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA)
August 25, 2015, 4:31 pm
Arad mayor orders police to block migrants from city
Fearing hundreds of newly freed detainees will flock to southern cities, mayor urges residents to help keep them out
African migrants protest outside Holot detention center in the Negev Desert, southern Israel. February 17, 2014. (FLASH90)
August 25, 2015, 9:06 am
Migrants begin to be freed from detention center
After court ruling, African migrants and asylum seekers held for more than a year at Holot to be released, but are banned from heading to Tel Aviv, Eilat
By Avi Lewis
African migrants protesting outside the Holot detention facility in February 2014. (Flash90)
August 11, 2015, 9:33 pm
Court upholds ‘anti-infiltration’ law, but limits migrants’ detention time
Decision means most of those held at Holot facility will be released, others will take their place
By Tamar Pileggi
An Israeli soldier standing along a section of newly built fence along the border, with the Sinai in the background. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash 90)
August 2, 2015, 12:28 am
IDF detains 15 suspects crossing into Israel from Sinai
Group taken to Saharonim prison in Negev, where illegal African migrants are held
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. (photo credit: FLASH90)
April 21, 2015, 3:42 am
Minister: Migrants’ deaths show why fence is necessary
While lamenting drowning of 700 people, Yisrael Katz also praises government’s actions to stop influx via Egypt
By JTA
African asylum seekers at the Holot detention center in southern Israel on December 21, 2013 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 4, 2015, 12:41 am
High Court hears petition to strike down refugee law, again
Israeli NGOs hope to nullify amendment that allows for the detention of asylum seekers for 20 months
By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff
The African Quarter of the Old City, with the Council Gate to the Temple Mount at center. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)
April 6, 2014, 2:47 pm
The Old City’s African secret
A community of African Muslims has lived for generations in two former prison buildings right next to the Temple Mount. Today, it numbers 350 staunchly Palestinian members
By Ilan Ben Zion
African immigrants seen at a detention facility located in the south of Israel. August, 2012. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
March 12, 2013, 7:37 pm
Court orders state to explain migrant detentions
High Court decree follows petition claiming Israel’s jailing of asylum-seekers is illegal and ‘torments innocent people’
By Stuart Winer
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
Rama Musa
December 16, 2012, 1:51 pm
Rama Musa
Israel’s abusive relationship with Africa
Israel despises and deports Africans while its business tycoons mint billions off Africa’s back
Ivory Coast infiltrators living in an old shelter in a park in Tel-Aviv. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 28, 2012, 4:36 pm
After South Sudanese, interior minister seeks to deport migrants from the Ivory Coast
‘You have two weeks to get out of the country,’ Eli Yishai declares, promising grants to those who leave voluntarily
By Stuart Winer
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