Holot
Analysis: What is the point of the override clause if it goes unused?
If the government isn’t going back to its prior policies toward migrants, then what is the point of the Supreme Court override clause?
Reopening Holot is ‘yet another spin,’ setting us back years, NGO says
How a Jewish country should not deal with asylum seekers
Netanyahu: It is time to deport African migrants
L’école de l’espoir
Un centre d’études pour migrants africains tente de renverser le cours de la fatalité
3 months to permit Holot migrants personal items, High Court tells state
“The decision clarifies to the state that it must treat the asylum seekers in Holot with dignity."
Passover Seder conducted for African detainees in Negev detention center
“As Jews, we can’t ignore what is happening here and celebrate our freedom at Passover when there are people who don’t have their own freedom in this country.”
Israel grants first Darfuri refugee status, after year of legal battles
Mutasim Ali becomes the first Darfuri to attain such status in Israel under the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Activists hold Seder for African asylum-seekers at Holot facility
Rabbis for Human Rights leads festival of freedom ritual
Eritrean survivor of Tel Aviv hate crime fights to stay out of Holot
Fetwi Yoseif saw his toddler cousin stabbed repeatedly in the head.
Knesset lowers maximum migrant detention in Holot to 12 months
The change follows the Supreme Court’s strike down of a 20-month maximum that had been allowed under a previous amendment.
Knesset approves bill to limit migrant detention to 12 months
New amendment to the anti-infiltration law passes 20 to 12 in first parliamentary reading, which would allow the jailing of African migrants in “Holot” detention center, but limits time of detention.
Analysis: Senior Eritrean Church official stuck in bureaucratic limbo over detention
Father Semere summoned to Holot detention center.
Court: No freezing new orders to migrants to come to Holot detention center
The migrants had hoped for a victory on the momentum of 1,200 other migrants being released from migrant detention centers last week.
Holot detention center begins releasing hundreds of African migrants
Negev facility is set to release some 600 African migrants Tuesday, and a similar number are slated for discharge Wednesday.