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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Levinsky Park

Thousands of African migrants demonstrate outside the Knesset on January 8, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 8, 2014, 9:10 pm
Israel firm in refusing protesters’ demand for refugee status
Rebuffed by PM after mass demo at Knesset, asylum-seekers plan more rallies, UN appeals; author Grossman ‘ashamed’ at policy; Speaker bars leaders from parliament
By Spencer Ho
African migrants hold posters and one holds an Eritrean flag during a protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
January 8, 2014, 2:31 pm
10,000 African migrants stage demonstration in Jerusalem
Knesset speaker nixes meeting between protest leaders and MKs; Peres: We’ll act morally; round them up and deport them, says ex-interior minister
By Spencer Ho
African asylum seekers at a meeting in Levinsky Park, south Tel Aviv, January 7, 2014, to discuss ongoing protests in support of their refugee claims. (Photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
January 7, 2014, 9:44 pm
Doing the migrants a disservice
Drawing masses of African asylum-seekers to demonstrate in central Tel Aviv or march to Jerusalem is not going to help their cause
By David Horovitz
African asylum seekers marching along Allenby Street in Tel Aviv, Monday, January 6, 2014. (photo credit: The Times of Israel / Hannah Fink)
January 6, 2014, 9:10 am
Migrants march on embassies in second day of protests
Asylum seekers call on US, UN, EU and other diplomatic offices to pressure Israel to soften refugee policies
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Thousands of asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan protest the Israeli government's neglect to review asylum requests, and the state's detention policies, at a demonstration held at Rabin Square, central Tel Aviv, on January 5, 2013. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
January 5, 2014, 10:17 pm
UN backs asylum seekers, but Netanyahu says rallies won’t help cause
Following large-scale protest, PM pledges to continue efforts to remove ‘infiltrators’; UNHCR blasts Israeli policies
By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff
Asylum seekers in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, Sunday, January 5, 2014. (photo credit: MK Dov Khenin/Facebook)
January 5, 2014, 11:01 am
30,000 African migrants hold silent march, rally in Tel Aviv
Asylum seekers open work strike, protest government moves to encourage them to leave the country
By ToI Staff
Thousands of African asylum seekers participate in a meeting at the Levinsky Park, Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday night, January 4, 2014. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 5, 2014, 4:57 am
African migrants to stage protest strike
Asylum seekers have been protesting their detention, government moves to encourage them to leave the country
By ToI Staff
Image capture from Channel 10 report on South Sudanese goodbye party in Tel Aviv.
June 16, 2012, 9:27 pm
Aid groups hold bittersweet farewell for 120 South Sudanese
120 migrants to be flown back to their home country on Sunday
By Ilan Ben Zion
A pregnant migrant woman outside a shelter in south Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Tamir Kalifa)
June 4, 2012, 12:22 pm
Out of Africa, into the fire: Refuge proves elusive for the asylum seekers of Tel Aviv
Dubbed a ‘cancer’ by extremist politicians, African migrants survive amid neighborhood hostility, the threat of deportation, and a little generosity of Israeli spirit
By Shira Rubin
Elli Fischer
March 15, 2012, 4:48 pm
Elli Fischer
This year, let’s get rid of our hametz at Levinsky Park
Instead of burning it, why not combine two different mitzvot and dispose of our leavening by giving it to those who need it?
Allen Katzoff
March 1, 2012, 2:22 pm
Allen Katzoff
Shirking our humanitarian obligation
It was part of a two-day pilot project of a free breakfast program for the hundreds of refugees who live on the streets within sight of the nearby office towers. They have no jobs, no money, and no food
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