International Migrants Day is marked annually throughout the world to celebrate the contributions of migrants to the countries they reside in. This is the 15th year in which human rights organizations and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque mark...

Last month, the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants filed a case to the High Court of Justice on behalf of 138 asylum-seekers who’ve been detained for nearly 30 months without trial in Israel. In response to the...

Asylum-seekers began arriving in Israel in large numbers in 2006. Since then, the policies implemented by the government have failed one after the other. Following a years-long policy of abandoning asylum-seekers to their fate in southern Tel...

Written by: Elizabeth Tsurkov Israel is home to about 35,000 Eritrean asylum-seekers. While the Israeli government claims that they are work migrants, so as not to violate its own laws, Israel does not forcibly deport Eritreans back...

On September 22, the High Court of Justice voided the 4th amendment to the Anti-Infiltration Law (read a partial summary of the ruling in English). A year ago, the Knesset passed the 4th amendment to the Anti-Infiltration...

Written by: Noam Weiss and Elizabeth Tsurkov Hate crimes against asylum-seekers rarely receive media coverage or public attention in Israel, but they continue unabated and most of the perpetrators are never brought to justice. The victims are...