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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Holot

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
Art photographer Ron Amir (L) and curator Noam Gal stand next to a picture from the exhibition on migrants, "Somewhere in the Desert," at the Israel Museum storage room in Jerusalem on July 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
August 19, 2018, 8:34 am
Migrants go unseen in Israeli photographer’s exhibition set to open in Paris
Curator says photos from migrant detention facility are ‘an opportunity to draw public attention to the phenomenon (of asylum seekers) from the artistic perspective’
By Jonah Mandel
In this Tuesday, April 3, 2018 photo, an African migrant sleeps in a street in southern Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 6, 2018, 1:00 am
Israelis want solution for African asylum seekers, though few want them to stay
Pollster estimates 70% of public rejects granting residency to the 40,000 migrants; especially opposed are residents of south Tel Aviv and religious Zionists, for different reasons
By Josefin Dolsten
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference announcing a new agreement for handling asylum seekers in Israel, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on April 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 4, 2018, 3:42 pm
New Israel Feud: 7 things to know for April 4
After reversing his position on migrants, the prime minister locks horns with a left-wing NGO he claims plotted with the Rwandan government to thwart deportations
By Adiv Sterman
Yosef Gotlieb
March 14, 2018, 11:35 am
Yosef Gotlieb
Reimagining Holot detention center
Turn it into a training center and improve the lot of migrants, their countries of origin, and Israel’s role in this crisis
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)
March 12, 2018, 9:03 pm
Large migrant detention center to close at midnight amid deportation plan
Holot will shut down after four years; 480 detainees to be released with geographic restrictions on where they can live and work
By Melanie Lidman
African migrants march from Holot detention center to the Saharonim Prison, on February 22, 2018. (AFP / MENAHEM KAHANA)
February 23, 2018, 12:57 am
Former justice slams government treatment of African migrants
Elyakim Rubinstein ‘struggles to understand’ how only 12 asylum requests approved; hundreds of migrants go on hunger strike over deportation plan
By Michael Bachner and AFP
Detained African migrants inside the Holot detention center, located in Israel's southern Negev desert near the Egyptian border, on February 4, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
February 21, 2018, 4:17 pm
First seven asylum seekers refusing deportation are imprisoned
750 Eritrean asylum seekers in Holot Detention Center begin hunger strike to protest the detention
By Melanie Lidman
African asylum seekers wait outside the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority office waiting to find out their status, in Bnei Brak, Israel, February 13, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 19, 2018, 6:55 pm
Deadline passes, but Israel takes no action to deport African asylum seekers
Population Immigration and Borders Authority, which gave 200 Eritrean migrants until the weekend to choose expulsion or jail, declines to explain what’s going on
By Melanie Lidman
Asylum seekers protesting at the Holot detention center in the southern Negev Desert of Israel, February 17, 2014. (Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images)
February 16, 2018, 1:00 pm
Spared by Shabbat, first asylum seekers facing deportation given until Sunday
In bid to soften public relations blow from controversial move, Netanyahu instructs government to refer to plan as ‘removal’ not ‘deportations’
By Melanie Lidman
An Eritrean musician performs outside the Holot detention facility, January 29, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 12, 2018, 4:29 pm
First group of asylum seekers could face deportation by weekend
Interior Ministry and activists each step up activities as first 200 Eritreans to decide between deportation and prison on Friday
By Melanie Lidman
African asylum seekers and rights activists protest against deportation in front of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzliya, on February 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 7, 2018, 8:12 pm
UNHCR in talks to send African migrants to ‘safe’ countries, let others stay
UN’s refugee body confirms talks with Israeli and foreign governments on a deal that would enable some asylum seekers to stay in Israel permanently, resettle others
By Melanie Lidman
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)
February 7, 2018, 8:46 am
African migrants in Israel opt for jail over deportation
A predictable life in detention is better than venturing into the unknown in an unfamiliar country, say those facing expulsion
By Jonah Mandel
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, on June 21, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 4, 2018, 9:16 am
Israel begins handing out deportation notices to African migrants
Eritrean, Sudanese asylum seekers to be expatriated to unnamed country that has ‘developed tremendously’ in the last decade, notices say
By Tamar Pileggi and Michael Bachner
An activist holds a #MeToo sign during a news conference on a Title IX lawsuit outside the Department of Education January 25, 2018 in Washington, DC (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
February 4, 2018, 8:46 am
Exposé leads to suicide, but media won’t play blame game
Pundits have a lot to say about Boaz Arad’s death in the wake of a report detailing his sexual misconduct, and it’s almost all in defense of the real victims and the fourth estate
By Joshua Davidovich
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