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Eritrean migrants

African migrants protest at the Holot detention center near Ktsiot, in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, February 17, 2014. (FLASH90)
April 27, 2023, 8:56 am
Overhaul backers turn thrice-struck asylum seeker law into emblem of court activism
Contrasting justices’ rejection of bill jailing African migrants with their approval of Gaza Disengagement Law, Simcha Rothman cuts to very heart of debate dividing Israeli society
By Jeremy Sharon
Illustration: African migrants walk past the Tel Aviv central bus station. (Zuzana Janku/Flash90)
January 2, 2022, 3:15 pm
2 foreign workers arrested on suspicion of raping woman with special needs
Eritrean migrants detained in south Tel Aviv after 22-year-old tells hospital she was sexually assaulted near city’s central bus station
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
Dawit Tekelaeb, left, and Daniel Gad star in the Israeli Oscar contender 'White Eye.' (Tomer Shushan via JTA)
March 11, 2021, 9:32 am
Israeli short film on African migrants among 10 finalists for Academy Awards
Tomer Shushan’s 20-minute ‘White Eye,’ made in one night and in a single take, examines Israel’s ‘blind’ bias toward Eritrean immigrants
By JTA and ToI Staff
Ethiopians who fled their homes due to ongoing fighting are pictured at a refugee camp in the Hamdait border area of Sudan's eastern Kassala state, on November 12, 2020. (Photo by - / AFP)
November 15, 2020, 1:25 pm
In huge escalation, Ethiopian rebel forces fire missiles at Eritrean capital
Leader of Ethiopia’s Tigray region accuses Eritrea of sending soldiers across the border, threatens more rockets ‘as long as troops are fighting here’
By Cara Anna
Security camera footage showing an Eritrean man being shot in the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015, after he was thought to be a terrorist. (screen capture: Channel 2)
September 6, 2020, 5:19 pm
Prosecutors appeal acquittal of men who lynched migrant mistaken for terrorist
Supreme Court to discuss case of IDF soldier and Prisons Service officer filmed beating Eritrean man Haftom Zarhum in aftermath of 2015 terror attack in Beersheba
By Michael Bachner
Security camera footage showing an Eritrean man being shot in the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015, after he was thought to be a terrorist. (screen capture: Channel 2)
July 20, 2020, 11:29 am
Court acquits men who lynched Eritrean migrant they mistook for terrorist
Judge lets two men off the hook for beating Haftom Zarhum, who was already critically injured in aftermath of 2015 terror attack
By ToI Staff
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
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
Eritrean migrants protest in front of the European Union embassy in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, calling for the EU to try the Eritrean leadership for crimes against humanity, June 21, 2016.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 2, 2020, 9:30 am
3 Eritreans charged with Tel Aviv murder of fourth who supported Asmara regime
Additional man indicted for assault; death comes amid ongoing violence in south Tel Aviv between those who back African nation’s government and those who oppose it
By Stuart Winer
Detained African migrants standing outside the Holot detention center, located in Israel's southern Negev desert near the Egyptian border, February 4, 2018. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)
December 24, 2019, 5:22 pm
UN refugee envoy urges Israel to reconsider nixed deal to resettle migrants
Damtew Dessalegne criticizes Jerusalem policy that sees asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan as infiltrators, calls on Jewish state to provide ‘humane’ solution
By ToI Staff
Eritrean asylum seekers outside the Holot detention facility in southern Israel, January 29, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
October 2, 2019, 4:15 pm
Netanyahu says he discussed deportation of Eritreans with Ethiopian PM
Visiting Jerusalem, Abiy Ahmed offered ‘innovative projects’ to bring Eritrean asylum seekers back ‘under wonderful conditions,’ PM says in little-noticed election clip
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: Asylum seekers from Eritrea protest against the Eritrean ambassador to Israel, outside the Foreign ministry in Jerusalem on June 25, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 11, 2019, 6:35 am
Lawsuit: City barring kids of Eritrean asylum-seekers from enrolling in school
Despite law requiring education for all, regardless of their legal residency status, Petah Tikva is refusing to accept them in schools, according to claim
By JTA
Tsegay Berhe's "Tea Break in School," painted in the Holot Detention Center in 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 11, 2019, 6:21 am
Asylum-seeker art at desert detention center is a surprising splash of color
Exhibit opening Thursday in Tel Aviv features four artists who painted on walls of now-closed Holot facility during their incarceration
By Melanie Lidman
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