Illegal immigrants israel

IDF captures terrorists in West Bank operations, Police detain 30 illegal immigrants in Tel Aviv

The IDF operation included an attack on two apartments in the camp where terrorists were hiding.

IDF soldiers operate during an Israeli raid in Tammun near Tubas in the West Bank, November 4, 2025
 A Border Police officer conducting operations, May 2025.

Border Police thwart illegal Palestinian infiltration attempt near Jerusalem

A COUPLE claiming to be husband and wife, arrested for attempting to bring an illegal resident into Israel.

Palestinian woman, Israeli man arrested after pretending to be married to enter Israel

POLICE ARREST suspect thought to have allowed illegal immigrants through border, November 30, 2025.

Foreign minors arrested for Tel Aviv stabbing as police continue illegal immigrant crackdown


Knesset members vote to worsen migrant conditions ahead of deportation

Following the meeting, Amnesty International Israel called on the country to allow all the migrants to stay.

Residents of south Tel Aviv protest against African migrants living in their neighbourhood

22,000 Ukrainian, Georgian refugees enter country via Internet scam

‘Taking advantage of Israel’s dysfunctional asylum policies,’ says report

A PLANE at Ben-Gurion International Airport.

Party leader Gabbay forces Zionist Union to back expulsion of migrants

Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On said Gabbay had “forgotten what it means to be a human being."

Labor leader Avi Gabbay speaks at a faction meeting

New tax in Israel leaves African migrants feeling unwanted and unwelcome

New tax rules force employers to put part of migrants' salaries in a fund which can only be accessed once they leave Israel.

African migrants in Tel Aviv

‘Life in South Tel Aviv has become unbearable’

Lawmakers and residents protest against migrant presence in city.

An African migrant worker sleeps on a bench of a bus station in south Tel Aviv

UN ambassadors visit Israeli settlement

Danny Danon says he wanted group "to have knowledge, be objective, and judge for themselves."

AMBASSADOR TO THE UN Danny Danon (second left), Guatemalan Ambassador to the UN Jorge Skinner-Klee and Ma’aleh Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel discuss a map in Ma’aleh Adumim last week

NGO: Special migrant courts significantly defective

Prior to May 2014, there were special migrant courts but appeals from those courts went up to standard civilian District Courts, ensuring that poor decisions were reviewed at a high level.

AFRICAN MIGRANTS sit on pipes outside Holot, a detention centre in Israel’s southern Negev desert.

Cabinet okays step to encourage illegal workers to leave by choice

“Now that we have almost completely stopped the infiltration phenomenon to Israel we need to continue to work to move forward ways to get those in the country to leave,” says Netanyahu.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from the Holot detention center in the Negev

NGO cites serious shortcoming in treatment of detained migrants by Israel

At several detention centers, many migrants did not even know they had access to healthcare.

The Holot Detention Facility in the Negev.

Knesset lowers maximum migrant detention in Holot to 12 months

The change follows the Supreme Court’s strike down of a 20-month maximum that had been allowed under a previous amendment.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from the Holot detention center in the Negev