Israel Asylum Seekers

How the economy could benefit from staving off deportations

Analysis: Still no final migrant policy

There are gaping holes in the new decision.

Following coalition uprising, Netanyahu freezes migrant deal

Monday's announcement of a deal with the UNHCR produced mixed reactions in Israel.

Israeli leaders voice mixed reactions to U.N. migrant plan

Meretz: The word ‘infiltrators’ has left the lexicon.

Israel reaches deal with U.N. to resettle asylum seekers in Western states

16,250 African migrants will be expelled to Western countries while the same number are to be granted temporary residency and dispersed across the country.

25,000 rally against deportation of migrants in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square

Multiple migrants addressed the rally, recounting harrowing tales of escaping from violent Sudanese militias and evading a forced labor draft in Eritrea.

Israel AIDS Task Force demands asylum seekers with HIV not be deported

The Health Ministry is currently treating 184 Eritrean and Sudanese migrants for HIV.

Court’s Eritrean military ruling may be ‘game changer’ for asylum seekers

Thursday’s ruling may provide a respite for thousands of men who received deportation notices earlier this month.

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.

Former Canadian official: Israel risks more damage if it deports migrants

"A Jewish and democratic state – which Israel is – can address and redress these problems, thereby reflecting and representing the best of our tradition and our democracy.”