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Haredi protesters gather at Maccabim checkpoint over reported draft evader arrest - report

The soldiers at the scene told the crowd that the detainee was in fact an undocumented resident, not a draft evader, the report added.

HAREDI PROTESTERS block Highway 1, June 1, 2026; Illustrative.
The IDF conducts large-scale anti-illegal immigration operations in the West Bank on July 26, 2026.

WATCH: Over 30 arrested in crackdown on smuggling of illegal West Bank immigrants

Weapons and ammunition seized by Israel Police in a raid in Kfar Yarka on July 10, 2026.

Police uncover massive weapons cache in Druze village, complete longstanding investigations

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to the media outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, April 15, 2026.

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


Tel Aviv pastor: African migrants ‘can make real contribution to society’

US Pentecostal delegation visit asylum-seekers as guests of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

IFCJ President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (left) speaks with Pastor Jeremiah Sunday Dairo in south Tel Aviv

High court upholds constitutionality of ‘anti-infiltration law’

Court rules that the Knesset must come up with revisions to the bill within 6 months, and temporarily limits the length of detention at Holot to 12 months.

The Holot Detention Facility in the Negev.

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.

NGO: African migrants deported from Israel among Christians killed in latest ISIS video

According to an NGO, the migrants did not get asylum seeker status in the third country and made their way north to Libya to try to reach Europe, after which they ended up in the hands of ISIS.

The three Eritrean asylum seekers said to have left Israel to a third country before ending up in Libya.

Analysis: Illegal migrants in the US and Israel – different leaders, different solutions

There are numerous commonalities between the illegal migrants crises that the US and Israel are experiencing.

The Holot Detention Facility in the Negev.

Flight to freedom?

The 300 detainees at the refugee Seder at the Holot Detention Center danced to live music and shared what organizers called their Exodus stories.

Refugee Seder at the Holot Detention Center.

High Court to State: From where do detained migrants have money for ice cream?

Judge says state is not paying the migrants enough or making it possible for them to work in the area around the detention centers in the South.

Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.

Holocaust controversies cloud immigration debate

Critics of liberal immigration policies reject analogies between illegal immigrants in the U.S. to Nazi-fleeing Jews.

US immigration protest

The glass people

Some Eritrean families deserve the status of political refugees, at least temporarily, their peace of mind is more than a human rights issue.

African migrants walk on a road in December 2013 after choosing to leave the Holot open detention facility

Shin Bet arrests Palestinian in Israel who tried to kidnap Israelis

Islamic Jihad affiliated man entered home in northern Israel with knife in attempt to kidnap Israeli, hurled firebombs at vehicles.

Murad Hassan Ali-Hassin.