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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.
IDF soldiers operate during an Israeli raid in Tammun near Tubas in the West Bank, November 4, 2025

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

 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


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.