Eritreans in israel

Ben-Gvir demands urgent action to expel illegal immigrants in southern Tel Aviv and beyond

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for urgent action to expel illegal immigrants from southern Tel Aviv, citing rising crime and security issues.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to the media outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, April 15, 2026.
 Police officers at the scene of the brawl that left two Eritrean nationals dead in Tel Aviv. August 24, 2024.

Two Eritreans killed, 8 wounded in brawl between regime opponents, supporters

 Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea and pro regime activists clash with Israeli police in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023.

Three Eritrean nationals arrested for plans to attack political critic

 An aerial view taken from a helicopter shows the Israeli city of Netanya, on the Mediterranean coast, April 26, 2023.

One dead, several seriously wounded in fight between Eritreans in Netanya


Israeli Court: Flight from Eritrean army is basis for refugee status

Under the Refugee Convention, which Israel is a party to, persons who cannot return to their country of origin because of threat of persecution must be granted refugee status.

Sudanese and Eritreans in Israel protest their treatment in front of the Knesset

The deportation of Eritreans is not in Israel’s national interest

The Eritreans/Tigrayans are proud people, who have survived for the past 3,000 years, kept our Orit/Torah religion and culture, language and way of life.

AN ASYLUM seeker from Eritrea works on his laptop at his home in south Tel Aviv in 2017.

Knesset plenum rejects committee of inquiry on African deportations

Government plans on expediting deportations * Eritrean leader says Israel should pay refugees $50,000 each to leave

An African migrant wears a T-shirt with a Hebrew phrase referring to the Holocaust," I promise to remember... and never forget!" in south Tel Aviv July 17, 2013.

The Fifth Column: Let’s not cast away our refugees and our heritage

Israel is creating an abomination, and over the next few weeks it plans to create a much-larger one.

A RALLY in Jerusalem for African migrants in 2014.

Self-liberation for Israel’s refugee community

‘The Schoolhouse’ gives freedom-seekers an opportunity to learn, contribute and make a change.

THE SCHOOLHOUSE computer program provides basic computer literacy skills for students who’ve never used a computer as well as more advanced practical skills such as Photoshop, design for marketing materials, personal blogs and Excel charts.

British report challenges Eritreans’ narrative that home country mistreats them upon return

Israeli NGO the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, slammed the report as being based on a much smaller number of interviews than in previous years.

Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.

After brutal attack on Eritrean infant, family given refugee status in Europe

The baby, then 18 months old Kako Yamena, was stabbed three times in the head by an Israeli man from Afula named Michael Zaretzky.

earlier this month, NATBAG.

Mistaken killing jars African migrants, NGOs

“I’m very afraid now. I don’t know what people could do. They could kill me and then say it was a mistake,” says Eritrean asylum seeker.

Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.

Israeli NGOs battle over call for asylum for Eritrean migrants

Group says new UN Human Rights Council report doesn’t justify change in policy.

Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.

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