Tag Archives: Eli Yishai
By Emily L. Hauser,thedailybeas Haaretz reported on Tuesday that Israel deported at least 1,000 Sudanese refugees to North Sudan via a third county, without informing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and despite the fact that “[Sudan] has … read more »
Posted in East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Aharon Barak, Darfur, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Israel, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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Israel’s Interior Minister has requested for legal approval to allow authorities to carryout the mass deportation of tens and thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers and migrants. According to Israeli news outlets, interior minister, Eli Yishai, has called on the … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean news, Israel, Miri Regev, Refugee, Sudan, Sudan news, sudanese news, tel aviv
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Gag order lifted 10 days after man allegedly repeatedly raped an elderly woman near the Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv. Photo: Ricardo Mallaco An 83-year-old woman was raped for hours in the courtyard of her apartment building near … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Eli Yishai, Eritrea, Eritrea news, eritrean news, IndepthAfrica, Israel, London, Monday, Petah Tikva, Sudan, tel aviv
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Israel has turned away dozens of African asylum-seekers, mostly Eritreans trying enter the country from Egypt, human rights groups have said. Human Rights Watch (HRW) and two Israeli NGOs said that “since June, Israeli forces patrolling Israel’s newly constructed border fence … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Refugees/Migrants, Somali
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, Human Rights Watch, Israel, Sinai Peninsula, tel aviv
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Israelis have taken to the streets to protest about the number of illegal African immigrants living in their neighourhoods in Tel Aviv. Officials estimate 60 thousand people have crossed illegally into Israel in recent years via the desert border with … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Somali
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Tagged African immigration to the United States, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Egypt, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Middle East, Sinai Peninsula, tel aviv
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Open letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel ministry of the interior Eli Yishai; Regarding the serious concerns involving the status, detentions and living conditions of the Ethiopian refugees now living in Israel. Prime Minister’s Office 3 Kaplan … read more »
By BEN HARTMAN Photo: Ben Hartman Fearing a wave of impending arrests by Israeli authorities, around a hundred Eritrean migrants rallied outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Thursday, to protest the construction of a Negev detention facility … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Negev, Prevention of Infiltration Law, tel aviv
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Gershom Gorenberg, prospect.org Levinsky Park is where you meet a friend if you’re an African refugee living in South Tel Aviv. One recent afternoon, I found around 50 Sudanese and Eritreans sitting on the small stretch of lawn in groups … read more »
Posted in Eritrea, Refugees/Migrants, Sudan
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaUganda, Israel, Sudan, tel aviv
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by Ran HaCohen If Ahmadinejad didn’t exist, Israel would invent him. Thanks to Israel’s gangster rhetoric of “hold me or I shoot,” international attention is focused on the brutal Muslim dictatorship in Iran, allowing Israel to quietly transform itself into … read more »
Israel is refusing to allow entry to a small group of African migrants huddled at a desert border fence with Egypt, officials said Wednesday, underscoring a toughened entry policy. The Eritrean group appeared to number a dozen, including two women … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, News, Spotlight
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Tagged African people, Egypt, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Ran Cohen, Sudan, tel aviv
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Detentions would begin on October 15 Israel’s Interior Minister Eli Yishai ordered immigration police yesterday to round up African migrants. The operation would begin on October 15. Many of the migrants are refugees from Darfur and face persecution or even … read more »
Posted in News, Spotlight
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Tagged Africa news, Darfur, Eli Yishai, Haaretz, IndepthAfrica, Interior ministry, Israel, October 15, Refugee, Yishai
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(MENAFN – Arab News) We shall not be a normal people, until we have Jewish whores and Jewish thieves in the Land of Israel,” our national poet, Haim Nahman Bialik, said some 80 years ago. This dream has come true. … read more »
Posted in Article, Featured 1, Pan African News
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Eli Yishai, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jewish state, Miri Regev, South Sudan, Sudan, tel aviv
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TEL AVIV: African migrants chosen for deportation from Israel were nervously awaiting a knock on the door or a tap on the shoulder Tuesday as immigration officials rounded up hundreds for departure flights due to begin over the weekend. “The … read more »
Posted in News, Spotlight
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Blum, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Negev, South Sudan, Sudan, tel aviv
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African migrants chosen for deportation from Israel were nervously awaiting a knock on the door or a tap on the shoulder on Tuesday as immigration officials rounded up hundreds for departure flights due to begin at the weekend. “The people … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Bedouin, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Blum, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Negev, South Sudan, Sudan
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Israeli authorities on Sunday began a roundup of South Sudanese migrants ahead of their deportation, three days after a court ruled that their lives were no longer threatened in their homeland. “The deportation operation is getting under way. We are … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News
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Tagged Africa news, African immigration to the United States, African news, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, Interior ministry, Israel, Jerusalem Post, South Sudan, Sunday, tel aviv
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ceasefiremagazine A week ago, on the night of Wednesday 23rd May, South Tel Aviv erupted, becoming the epicentre of an attack by an angry, violent mob against members of the city’s African migrant population, deliberately targeted because of no other … read more »
If the government doesn’t want us here, let them deport us. But they can’t have it both ways – exploiting our presence here without giving us basic rights. I live in the Shapira neighborhood in Tel Aviv. Unfortunately, what is … read more »
Posted in Featured 1, Letters & Interviews, News
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Tagged Darfur, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, Israel, israeli, Jews, Politics of Israel, Sudan, tel aviv
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Surging street violence against African migrants, including a rampage that an Israeli broadcaster dubbed a “pogrom”, drew empathy for the rioters from the interior minister on Thursday. Waving Israeli flags and chanting “Deport the Sudanese”, residents of a low-income Tel … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, South Sudan, Spotlight, Sudan
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Tagged Eli Yishai, Eritrea, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jews, South Sudan, Sudan, tel aviv, Yitzhak Rabin
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November 14, 2010 by benim
The cabinet is expected to approve plans today to bring another 7,846 members of the Ethiopian Falashmura community to Israel over the next four years. Activists who support the rights of the Falashmura to immigrate to Israel have promised to … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, Global Issues, Middle East, News
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Tagged Aliyah, Beta Israel, Eli Yishai, Ethiopia, IndepthAfrica, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Law of Return
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