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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 537

asylum seekers

Organizers and farmers co-design a solar field in western Uganda as part of a Gigawatt Global project, Kyenjojo District, Uganda, April 13, 2024. (Jeje Canutum)
March 11, 2025, 3:46 pm
Jewish and Israeli aid groups are hit by Trump’s suspension of USAID, refugee program
After the US president orders America’s largest aid body gutted, repercussions are felt around the world as programs benefiting people from Africa to Gaza have their funding frozen
By Sue Surkes
Eritreans near the scene where two Eritrean asylum seekers were killed in a fight with pro-regime activists, in south Tel Aviv, August 24, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
August 25, 2024, 12:31 am
Far-right minister calls for expulsion of Eritrean asylum seekers after deadly brawl
Ben Gvir’s demand follows Tel Aviv fight between pro-regime and anti-regime factions in which two people were killed
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Eritrean migrants arrested by police following a brawl in south Tel Aviv on July 7, 2024. (Israel Police)
July 8, 2024, 12:29 am
One killed, one seriously injured in brawl between rival Eritrean groups in Tel Aviv
In latest clashes between pro-regime, anti-regime migrants — including some asylum seekers — police say people were attacked with spikes and clubs, pelted with stones
By ToI Staff
Ahmed Alid, a Moroccan asylum seeker who stabbed an elderly man to death, in Hartlepool, northeast England, October 15, 2023. (Counter Terrorism Policing North East)
April 26, 2024, 8:49 am
UK convicts Moroccan of murdering retiree so ‘Palestine would be free from Zionists’
Ahmed Alid, 45, stabbed elderly man to death in the week after Oct. 7 massacre, also wounded housemate in chest while screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ and assaulted two police officers
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative -- Palestinians cross to the Egyptian side of the border crossing with the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
April 4, 2024, 2:16 am
UK charities urge government to welcome Gazans with family ties in Britain
Tens of thousands of Gazans who manage to leave the Strip linger in limbo, with very few countries – none in the Arab world – willing to take them in as refugees
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Police at the scene of a brawl between Eritrean migrants in Netanya, Sept. 30, 2023. (Israel Police)
September 30, 2023, 11:32 pm
Eritrean man stabbed to death in Netanya, in latest brawl between migrants
Violence between supporters and opponents of regime has been on the rise; deadly incident follows overnight clashes in Tel Aviv
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin (L) at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 10, 2023, 4:14 pm
Cabinet allocates NIS 20 million to encourage migrants to leave country
Funds earmarked to encourage ‘voluntary departure,’ week after a massive street brawl between Eritrean migrants injured over 170
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Eritrean protesters clash with Israeli riot police in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, September 2, 2023. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
September 9, 2023, 6:16 am
After riot, police said to order closure of Tel Aviv Eritrean churches over weekend
Law enforcement meets with church leaders, temporarily shutters 4 houses of worship to head off further violence following clashes last week, report says
By ToI Staff
Interior Minister Moshe Arbel seen during a meeting of his Shas party faction meeting, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on July 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 4, 2023, 6:55 pm
Interior minister admits asylum requests held up due to ‘tremendous’ lack of staff
Moshe Arbel says skilled workers needed to process applications, but monthly wage is low; adds that convincing migrants to leave of their own accord is ‘good solution’
By ToI Staff
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
Omer Easa from Sudan poses for a portrait inside the offices of the Hotline for Migrant Workers, a rights group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 30, 2023 (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)
May 5, 2023, 2:00 pm
Sudanese asylum seekers worry about future in Israel, fighting at home
Overhaul’s proponents say African migrants are a main reason it must pass, citing it as example of judicial overreach; activists say Supreme Court protects those fleeing danger
By Tia Goldenberg
A volunteer lights a candle during a vigil for Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh, at an LGBTQ shelter in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 7, 2022. Hebrew and Arabic reads "we will remember you forever". (AP/Oded Balilty)
November 22, 2022, 3:52 am
Ghastly beheading lays bare the myriad perils for LGBT Palestinians fleeing to Israel
Even before Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh was murdered in Hebron for being gay, he faced a long list of dangers and challenges inside Israel’s ‘broken’ asylum system, friends and experts say
By Jack Mukand
Merhan Karimi Nasseri sits among his belongings at Terminal 1 of Roissy Charles De Gaulle Airport, north of Paris, August 11, 2004. (AP/Michel Euler, File)
November 13, 2022, 1:14 am
Man who inspired Spielberg’s ‘The Terminal’ dies, at airport where he lived 18 years
Iranian asylum seeker Merhan Karimi Nasseri, who stayed at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle in 1988-2006 while in legal limbo, dies of heart attack after returning to the same airport
By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER
Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman arrives in Downing Street in London, September 7, 2022 for the first cabinet meeting since Liz Truss was installed as British Prime Minister a day earlier. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
September 8, 2022, 8:24 pm
Ben & Jerry’s urges new UK cabinet to ‘scrap’ plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
Ice cream firm that’s been battling Israeli settlements presses UK government to scrap a ‘Rwanda plan’ it says puts people’s ‘lives at risk,’ is accused of political meddling
By Tobias Siegal
African asylum seekers and human rights activists protest against deportation of asylum seekers at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on March 24, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 22, 2022, 6:38 am
Restaurateurs protest regulation that will bar asylum seekers from working
‘Israelis aren’t interested in this kind of job’: Ruling set to take effect in October will harm restaurant, delivery and cleaning industries, owners say
By ToI Staff
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