When Dr. Avishai Benish was my Social Security professor, he used to say that “service for the poor becomes poor service”. This is a sentence that stayed with me since. The other day I was sitting at...

Each year at Pesach, Jewish people all over the world will sit with family and friends at Pesach Seders and re-tell the story of exodus. There is something extremely powerful about sharing a story of survival. To...

When an Israeli citizen is suspected of a crime a court needs to prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the defendant has indeed committed the crime, in order for him to be convicted, and if required –...

The Entry to Israel Law allows the detention of any person who does not have status in Israel, provided that the detention is not for a punitive purpose, but serves as a tool intended to enable deportation....

In 2010, the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants first identified asylum-seekers jailed in Saharonim prison who described enduring torture and being forced to work without pay in Sinai en route to Israel. The Sinai-based smugglers would torture...

In May 2014 the Appeals Tribunal was founded as a new judicial tribunal for immigration proceedings. The objective, as describied in the founding bill, was to reduce the heavy workload on the administrative courts and create an...