Ilan Lior (Haaretz)
By Ilan Lior (Haaretz)
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Breaking News Israel Offers $5K to African Immigrants To Voluntarily Leave Country
The Israeli government plans to offer $5,000 to any African migrant who agrees to leave the country voluntarily and promises not to return. This is more than triple the $1,500 it has offered departing migrants until now. Over the past few months, hundreds of migrants, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan, have accepted the previous offer,…
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Breaking News Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Rally Draws 30,000 Israelis
Thirty thousand people gathered Saturday night for a rally marking 18 years since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, according to police estimates. The rally, which was scheduled to commence at 8 P.M., took place at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, where the prime minister was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by right-wing extremist…
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Breaking News Israel Scrambles as Court Axes Law Aimed at African Immigrants
The High Court of Justice’s decision Monday to overturn a year-old law allowing African migrants to be held without trial for up to three years caught Israeli officials by surprise. Government ministries that will be affected by the ruling began studying the decision immediately, and will continue to examine its implications for a number of…
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Breaking News Israel Plays Dial-a-Nation To Oust African Refugees
The Interior Ministry is challenging asylum claims by Eritreans who, it says, are Ethiopian and thus eligible for deportation. A Central District Court judge has ruled in favor of the state in 18 out of 19 petitions against the ministry’s classification. Eritrean citizens in Israel are granted collective ‘temporary protection’ and are not deported to…
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Breaking News Israel Plans To Deport ‘100%’ of Eritrea Immigrants
Israel has reached an agreement with an unspecified state willing to absorb illegal Eritrean migrants, and is in advanced talks with two other states seeking to reach similar agreements regarding the deportation of illegal Sudanese migrants. Attorney Yochi Gnessin, who represents the State Prosecution, conveyed the information on Thursday during a High Court hearing on…
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Breaking News Shops Owned by Africans Shut by Israel Police
Tel Aviv municipal inspectors, along with a large contingent of police, raided illegal businesses run by African migrants in the Neve Sha’anan neighborhood. The inspectors closed down about 10 businesses in the south Tel Aviv neighborhood, implementing both court orders and administrative closure orders. They confiscated equipment from restaurants, cafes, bars and kiosks. They took…
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Breaking News Thousands of Israelis Protest Austerity Measures
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday to protest against austerity measures presented this week as part of the state’s new budget. Rallies were expected to take place in cities across the country, bringing back the social protest that took Israel by storm two years ago. Some 10,000 people were estimated to be…
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Breaking News Israel Police Use Facebook To Track Leaders of Social Justice Protest
Israel Police have been carefully following the Facebook accounts of the social protest movement and its leaders, apparently as part of a hunt for evidence of criminal wrongdoing, it emerged from evidence police prosecutors have submitted to the court in support of indictments against protest leader Daphni Leef and others. In addition to video footage…
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