Category: "General"

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 –...

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...

Avi Mograbi’s documentary film, Between Fences, chronicles a theatre workshop for asylum seekers at the Holot Detention Facility, in the Negev Desert in Israel. Mograbi and director Chen Alon started the workshop. The film was screened at...

Mutasim Ali, a leader of the asylum seeker community, is the first Sudanese national to be recognized as a refugee by the State of Israel. He requested asylum four years ago and spent 14 months at the...