Dear Friends, For a long time, whenever I heard the word slavery, the images that came to mind were of colonial masters selling captured African slaves on the open market. But that was long before I understood...
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Information about the new deposit law
14/05/2017According to the anti- infiltration law, a new amendment states that starting in May the employer will deduct 20% of asylum seekers salary and deposit it into a special bank account (deposit) that will be opened under your...
Continue readingI light this torch in the memory of 4000 Eritreans who were murdered in Sinai torture camps
11/05/2017On the 69th Independence Day of the State of Israel, Messi, a translator at the Hotline, lit a torch at the alternative torchlight ceremony, in memory of the asylum seekers who were murdered in Sinai, whose tracks were lost,...
Continue reading81,329 migrant workers are currently legally employed in Israel. Over half of them, 47,488 people, work in the caregiving sector. 80% of migrant caregivers are women. New report, written by the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants and...
Continue readingWhen 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...
Continue readingSupport The Hotline for Passover
02/04/2017Each 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...
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