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High Court to hear petition on behalf of Eritreans stuck between Egypt and...

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ seeks order granting asylum seekers entry into country

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Doctors barred from accessing Eritreans stuck between Egypt and Israel

Advocacy group ‘We Are Refugees’ petitions High Court to allow asylum seekers to enter; second hearing set for Sunday

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Israel allows in two women, one youth stuck on Sinai border

After eight days camped out on the border with Egypt, three of 21 stranded Eritreans given permission to come in

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Eilat students kept out of school as parents protest integration of migrants’...

Supreme Court ruling forces resort city to place 30 children in four schools

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New testimony shows Eritreans pleaded with Israel to not be forced back into...

Maariv reports that accounts of migrants stuck at the border, given by 3 Eritreans let into Israel, contradict claims government made last week

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Yishai crows over steep drop in migrants entering through Sinai

Only 49 sneak into Israel in October, as opposed to 1,998 in same month last year

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Volunteer medical clinic for migrants gets big boost from government

State funding expands an idealist’s healthcare project that is partly humanitarian, promises to stem overcrowding in hospitals, can help Israel’s image, and will probably save money

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Dozens protest upsurge in crime by African migrants

Demonstration in southern Tel Aviv prompted by Sudanese man allegedly burglarizing home, assaulting family

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Israel will keep sending home African migrants, Sa’ar says

During interior minister’s first tour of south Tel Aviv, residents complain of government inaction, and one calls the neighborhood a ‘ghetto’

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Migrant tragedies sharpen calls for safe passage

Humanitarian outcry follows drowning of at least 34 when boat carrying hundreds of Syrians and Palestinians capsizes

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Couple questioned for running illegal abortion clinic for migrant women

Police reportedly find 3,000 miscarriage-inducing pills at center; duo also suspected of trafficking migrant babies

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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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State comptroller challenges Israel’s treatment of migrants

Annual report pans shortage of healthcare and welfare for asylum seekers, and marks spike in ministers’ trips abroad

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Police bust 65 foreign nationals after massive sting operation

Mass arrests for various crimes made after agent spends 14 months integrating himself into community

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15 Gazans drown off the coast of Egypt

Egyptian military officials say they were aboard a boat attempting to smuggle migrants from Egypt to Italy

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Italy tows in migrant ship after crew abandons vessel

Authorities take control of boat with hundreds of refugees on board; coast guard also brings in ferry from fire tragedy

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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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US envoy apologizes to Poland for FBI chief’s Holocaust remarks

At Holocaust memorial, German FM says Israel ties ‘seem like a miracle';Islamic State video shows mass killings of Christians in Libya

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Sea of sorrows: Many migrants drown trying to reach Italy

Recent years have seen a seemingly unending stream of Africans risking death in hopes of a better life

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Why the Mediterranean death toll is surging

At least 1,750 asylum seekers or migrants have perished in the sea between Libya and Italy this year

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