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African asylum seekers march from the Holot detention facility toward the Egyptian border.
10 must-read articles for World Refugee Day
A selection of articles and stories about asylum seekers and refugees in Israel on the occasion of World Refugee Day. (Full disclosure, I couldn’t include just 10) It has been more than a decade since refugees from Darfur first began making the dangerous journey across the Sinai desert in order to seek asylum in Israel.…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man June 20, 2017
A musical performance by refugees during the Refugee Day in tel Aviv on June 20, 2013. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)
PHOTOS: Tel Aviv marks World Refugee Day with music, theater
Since 2001, June 20th is celebrated globally as World Refugee Day. In Israel, there are 55,000 asylum seekers, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan, two of the main source countries for refugees worldwide, a new UN report shows. Text by: Yotam Gidron, photos by: Keren Manor, Yotam Ronen, Shiraz Grinbaum / Activestills.org Last Thursday, refugees and…
By Activestills June 24, 2013
World Refugee Week: A community deported, in pictures
Refugees and their supporters in Tel Aviv mark World Refugee Day on Friday. But amidst what is meant to be a celebratory event hangs a strong sense of unease, as Israel tightens its immigration policies, threatening to deport those who seek protection and to jail the ones it cannot expel. Last week, Israel began aggressive…
By +972 Magazine June 21, 2012
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