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Eritrean refugees assail Israeli deportation policy

Community spokesmen call on Israel to stop forcing asylum seekers to sign ‘voluntary’ return forms

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‘South Tel Aviv is South Sudan now’

As African migrants flood the area, Jewish residents say they feel forgotten by their government

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Netanyahu wanted to appoint journalist to expel African migrants

Prime Minister’s Office was prepared to pay Israel Hayom’s Boaz Bismuth large bonuses to find host countries

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Fight over the flight

A battle brews over detention of Sudanese refugees as nearly 200 march on Jerusalem; the press investigates a soldier’s death up north

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African migrants march in Tel Aviv, demand refugee status

Demonstration comes days after asylum seekers walk out of new detention facility in protest of government’s detention policy

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Migrants’ ID numbers, not names, presented to court

State appeal lists only prisoner digits of 153 migrants arrested during a protest in Jerusalem last week

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Large upsurge in migrants ‘voluntarily’ leaving Israel

Some 2,000 leave in the course of 2013, encouraged by $3,500 payment

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Thousands of African migrants demonstrate in Tel Aviv

‘March for freedom’ against government policy staged for second week in a row

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African migrants take protest to Tel Aviv beach

On Day 2 of a three-day strike, thousands of men, mostly Eritreans, march onto the city’s famed boardwalk, stopping in front of the US Embassy

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Protests renewed as migrants prepare for march on Jerusalem

Thousands gather in Tel Aviv’s Levinsky Park while detained asylum seekers maintain hunger strike

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Outlook bleak for African migrants in Israel

Not one Sudanese or Eritrean national has been granted refugee status by the Israeli government, says activist

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With fliers and Facebook, how Israel’s migrants birthed a movement

Protests by African asylum-seekers are coordinated by a small group of highly capable leaders, catalyzed by shared discontent, with a little NGO assistance

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UN: Number of world’s displaced over 50 million

Crises in Syria, Sudan, Somalia and elsewhere push refugee figures to highest level since World War II

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Exodus to Egypt? Why African migrants marched on Israel’s border

Sudanese and Eritreans are protesting indefinite detention in Negev facility, bidding to get aid from UN as refugees

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Watchdog slams Israel’s treatment of African migrants

Policy toward Eritrean and Sudanese migrants coerces them to leave the country, Human Rights Watch report says

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Hundreds protest new provision to asylum seekers law

Crowd rallies in Negev against amendment that allows detainment of refugees for up to 20 months without trial

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Internet campaign draws attention to asylum seekers

Social media effort highlights statements by African refugees in effort to humanize detainees

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For Israel’s migrants, a hell frozen over

The open detention center at Holot houses more than 2,000 African migrants; to activists and residents, it’s a blight on the country’s democracy

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High Court hears petition to strike down refugee law, again

Israeli NGOs hope to nullify amendment that allows for the detention of asylum seekers for 20 months

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Asylum seekers face expulsion to other countries

Interior Ministry draws up motion to deport Sudanese and Eritrean migrants, bypassing Supreme Court

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