Education
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Date: 21.6.20
Source: ASSAF; The Garden Library
This report examines the key educational issues and needs of children of asylum seekers in Israel, mostly in the municipal kindergartens and in the state-run elementary schools. |
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Date: 17.1.20
Source: Haaretz, Lee Yaron
A 7-month-old baby girl died in an unsupervised day care for the children of asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv Thursday morning. The cause of death has not been officially determined but it is believed the infant choked to death. |
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Date: 2.1.20
Source: Haaretz, Bar Peleg
The Tel Aviv Municipality’s planning committee approved a plan Wednesday to build a school for children of foreign workers in Levinsky Park near the central bus station. It would destroy the only green area in that part of the city. |
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Date: 23.9.19
Source: Haaretz, Lee Yaron
Asylum seekers protest the city's refusal to allow their children to enroll in school, Petah Tikva, July 9, 2019.Tomer Appelbaum |
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Date: 8.8.19
Source: Jessica Ody
"Asylum Seeker’s Access to Education - A Humanitarian Crisis in Israel" (2012) is a research paper by Jessica Ody, MA, International Humanitarian Action prog |
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For years, ASSAF received reports about discrimination against underage asylum seekers when it comes to the discount in use of public transportation. In February 2019, we filed a petition to the High Court of Justice on the matter. |
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In 2008, the municipality of Eilat began to refuse admitting children of asylum seekers in schools in the city. Instead, the children of asylum seekers were sent to a school separate from those of Israeli residents and citizens. |
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From 2014 to 2017, ASSAF cooperated with CIMI - the Israeli Center for International Migration and Integration, to assist young asylum seekers who arrived in Israel as unaccompanied minors and to promote their rights vis-à-vis state authorities. |
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Children of asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable in Israel, deprived of many of their basic rights. Like their parents, these children lack legal status. |
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Date: 5.8.19
Source: Haaretz, Refaella Goichman
“They took a few of us on a bus to Tel Aviv and dropped us off at the central bus station. I was 18 and a half and didn’t know what to do. I got to Jaffa and linked up with people who could help me. |
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