Asylum seekers

Former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel visit Kenyan refugee camp

Partnering with IsraAID, former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel toured the camp's facilities as part of their recent entry into humanitarian work.

 Keith and Aviva Siegel  speak at The Jerusalem Post's Annual Conference in New York, US, May 19, 2025
Greek emergency personnel wait to transfer bodies of dead migrants, following migrant’s boat collision with coast guard off the island of Chios, in the port of Chios, Greece, February 3, 2026.

Fourteen migrants die off Greece after boat collides with coast guard

Swiss flags are seen on the Swiss Parliament building (Bundeshaus) in Bern, Switzerland, November 6, 2024.

Second Iranian diplomat abandons post, seeks asylum for family in Switzerland - report

Migrants try to board smugglers' boats in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France on September 27, 2025; illustrative.

Migrants share tutorials for human smuggling on social media - report


Malaysia to hand 1,200 Myanmar detainees to country's navy

Malaysia is home to more than 154,000 asylum-seekers from Myanmar.

Myanmar army armoured vehicles drive past a street after they seized power in a coup in Mandalay

Review of security screening for immigrants to US awaits completion

President Joe Biden repealed the so-called Muslim ban on immigration, but has instructed a review of the immigrant vetting process, the stated reason for the Trump Administration’s policy.

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, US, February 5, 2021.

Biden to raise current US refugee cap from historic lows

Biden said he plans to set the limit for fiscal year 2022, which begins on Oct. 1, 2021, at 125,000 refugees.

Couple sits covered with a blanket as refugees and migrants camp on a road following a fire at the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos

Judge blocks dramatic Trump administration overhaul of US asylum system

The injunction undermines the Trump administration's last-minute efforts to solidify its hardline immigration policies.

US President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Asylum seekers' kindergarten broken into, vandalized, while kids present

The Unitef kindergarten is used primarily by asylum seekers and non-Hebrew speaking migrants in south Tel Aviv.

Children at a kindergarten for asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv.

Sudanese nationals in Israel fear deportation after peace deal

Many in country illegally worry about their fate – which could include death.

sudan refugees 311

Right to asylum, recognized after Holocaust, may be at its end

On June 15, the Trump administration proposed exhaustive new asylum regulations that, if implemented, could mark the end of asylum as we know it.

Hands reaching towards barbed wire (Illustrative)

The Eritrean cooking course teaching Israelis about asylum seekers

Kitchen Talks is a social project that aims to connect different groups in Israeli society.

Chef Asmait Merhatsion runs the ‘Kitchen Talks’ program

Struggling asylum seekers call on government to release withheld funds

"Most asylum seekers aren’t eligible for any of these things. The government must release our money now, to prevent a real humanitarian disaster."

Asylum seekers demonstrate in front of the Knesset

140,000 refugees flee Turkey for Europe, despite coronavirus fears

Turkey sends flights to evacuate its own citizens while it denies health care to asylum seekers who flee to Greece amid unprecedented EU closures

Children sit in an auto rickshaw in Tal Abyad, one of the cities in which Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan plans to resettle Syrian refugees