Refugees in israel

Tekuma region population grows 10% past pre-October 7 levels as 90% of residents return

Alongside the return of residents who were evacuated, thousands of new residents have moved to the region since October 7.

Israeli families from kibbutz Nir Oz who's houses were burned in the October 7 massacre, visit their old homes before they're destroyed in order to be rebuilt. August 30, 2026.
Protests against illegal immigration in Tel Aviv.

Decapitated mannequins placed at houses of judges, Tel Aviv mayor, in protest of illegal immigrants

 A damaged sign is pictured at the headquarters of UNRWA following an Israeli raid in Gaza City, on July 12, 2024.

UNRWA operations in east Jerusalem set to end, concerns continue

 Posing outside the Dan Jerusalem Hotel (L-R): Herzl Shriki and his daughter Tamar, Shelly Dadia, Leah and Marc Hersch, Shalom Chayut, and Yosef Tzarfati.

Home Sweet (not) Home: The displaced residents of northern Israel


'Government is destroying the North': Local leaders say citizens will leave without solution

More and more residents are leaving the North, and the situation is not improving.

 Northern Israelis, evacuated from their homes following the war, protesting demanding the government to return them to their homes, in central Jerusalem, May 16, 2024

It is time to integrate African asylum seekers into Israeli society - opinion

It is evident to all, that Israel now has far more significant, existential problems to deal with than searching for unnatural solutions to the African refugee issue.

 ERITREAN VOLUNTEERS work in Israeli agriculture in a joint project of ARDC and Leket Israel.

Exemptions for Russian, Ukrainian refugees in Israel leads to fraud - policy center

Israeli Immigration Policy Center urges a special visa to allow immigrants from former Soviet Union countries to secure legal migration documents at a later date.

 Ukrainian refugees arrive in Israel on February 9, 2023

Israelis protest judicial reform in their thousands amid terror wave

Physician head at protest: Israel is abandoning refugees • Israelis take to the street for 34th straight weekend

Israeli judicial reform protesters are seen at Tel Aviv's Habima Theater on August 26, 2023

Ukrainian refugees health insurance crisis shows signs of solution

About 14,000 Ukrainian refugees who have arrived in Israel since the onset of the war are currently ineligible to receive health services. Is a solution on the horizon?

 Ukrainian Jewish refugees arriving at Ben-Gurion Airport, March 6, 2022.

'Nobody wants to be a refugee': Israel's asylum seekers speak out

In light of a new governmental plan to encourage asylum seekers to leave Israel, we speak to those affected, and those assisting them.

 USUMAIN BARAKA and friends from his high school in Yemin Orde.

Refugee Day 2023: Global trends and the situation in Israel

According to the Population and Immigration Authority, there are currently about 25,500 asylum seekers living in Israel, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan.

 SOME OF THE thousands of asylum seekers, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, who are living in Tel Aviv.

Ukrainian refugees seek to make new lives in Israel

More than 40,000 Ukrainians arrived in Israel since the beginning of Russia’s invasion. Those who aren't citizens though, exist in a legal limbo.

 A line of Ukrainians waiting to receive donations in northern Tel Aviv.

Will George Santos be replaced by an Ethiopian-Jewish legislator?

After politicians on multiple levels have called for Santos' resignation, local politicians are fishing for who could eventually replace his seat.

 Pilip speaking out against antisemitism.

Refugees in Bnei Brak left without papers by Immigration Authority office - report

After a six-month closure, malpractice at the Bnei Brak branch of Israel’s Immigration Authority has left hundreds waiting in long lines to get their visas renewed.

African migrants wait in line for the Population and Immigration Authority office to open in Bnei Brak.