Filipino community

Population and Immigration Authority agents arrest a Filipina and her daughter in south Tel Aviv, taking them to a deportation detention facility at Ben-Gurion Airport prior to their deportation, August 16, 2011. It was the first documented arrest in which a child of foreign immigrant workers, born, raised and educated in Israel was arrested and deported. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
What does the future hold for non-Jews in the Jewish state?
A new book about Israel’s crusade against asylum seekers and undocumented workers strikes at an essential truth about the precarious status of non-Jews in a self-defined Jewish state. “The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others,” Mya Guarnieri Jaradat, Pluto Press, 2017. In a small apartment in south Tel Aviv, a Filipina woman hides her…
By Natasha Soffer-Roth May 4, 2017
LISTEN: The song of the ‘threat’ to the Zionist project
A few weeks ago, I was in south Tel Aviv on a Friday night conducting research. As I walked down Salame Street, I heard a chorus singing above me. It was coming from the second story of a low-slung, dilapidated apartment building. I saw a few latecomers entering the building — Eritrean women draped in…
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat June 28, 2012
A Christmas journey part 8: Where the lovelight gleams
<< The Christmas Journey Home Harashim – Tel-Aviv central bus station – Hatikva, Home for Christmas At sundown on Friday I arrived at my favorite place in the entire country: The tiny community of Harashim. It was founded in the 70s as part of Ariel Sharon’s plan to Judaize the Galilee. Scores of small towns…
By Yuval Ben-Ami December 18, 2011
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