African migrants

Seven Nights 5: Sodom Burning
I don’t always drink beer in bars with racist symbols on the wall. But when I do, it’s for a good cause. Part five of the nighttime journey. For other nights click here. Saturday night we were back on the streets. Hundreds of left-leaning urbanites marching through central Tel Aviv, condemning the government for turning this…
By Yuval Ben-Ami August 12, 2015
The front of the Bikur Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem (photo credit: ilya ginzburg cc flickr)
Israeli hospitals refusing to treat African patients
Report: Jerusalem’s Bikur Holim Hospital refuses to treat a number of African asylum seekers under the premise that they don’t have health insurance. In the past week, the Bikur Holim hospital in Jerusalem has turned away at least three Eritrean asylum seekers, according to a report in Maariv (Hebrew). After experiencing severe stomach pains, Nestah Ibrahim,…
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat July 30, 2012
African couple hospitalized after apparent arson attack
The apartment of an Eritrean couple in Jerusalem went up in flames last night, in what looks like another arson attack. Haaretz reports that at around 3 a.m., the man and the woman, who is seven months pregnant, awoke and tried to stamp out the fire with their feet. There are times when events are…
By Dahlia Scheindlin July 12, 2012
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In your face. We were surrounded by an angry mob. (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)
Mob against migrants: How far can the violence go?
The rioting last night in south Tel Aviv against African migrants – some of them asylum seekers –  was another one of those moments that paralyzed me with a mixture of disbelief, horror and sorrow. The photos of smashed windows were reflexively associated in many Jewish minds with Kristallnacht, as many people on social networks…
By Dahlia Scheindlin May 24, 2012
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