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Israeli Government Approves Budget Cuts to Fund Healthcare for Ukrainian Refugees Until End of 2023
Israel’s government approved budget cuts on Tuesday across all its ministries for the year of 2023 to fund the extension of health coverage for Ukrainian refugees until the end of the year. This decision follows a suspension of health coverage by the government on August 9th for 14,000 Ukrainian refugees living in Israel resulting in […]
29.08.2023, Haaretz
How Israel Turned Its Back on a Refugee From Ukraine When She Was Diagnosed With Cancer
16.08.2023, Haaretz
Israel Is Failing Ukrainian Refugees
13.08.2023, Haaretz
Israel’s Suspension of Medical Coverage for Ukrainian Refugees Hurts the Most Vulnerable
10.08.2023, Haaretz
The Refugee Rights Forum – an Urgent call regading health services for Ukrainian Refugees in Israel
09.08.2023
Israel does not fulfill its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities when Refugees and Asylum Seekers with Disabilities are concerned – Status Report – August 2023
August 2023, Orly Levinson-Sela, Public Advocacy Director, ASSAF
Supplementary Alternative Report: Reference to State Party Replies to the List of Issues & Updates Submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – 2023
06.08.2023
The Forum of Refugee Rights Organizations in Israel – June 2023 report
The Forum of Refugee Rights Organizations in Israel – June 2023 Report June 2023 report For almost two decades, approximately 25,000 refugees from Africa have been living in Israel. Most of them are Eritreans and Sudanese, with a minority of them coming from the Congo and the Tigray region in Ethiopia. During the last year […]
26.06.2023
Asylum Seekers’ Health Insurance Program at Risk as Israeli Providers Back Out
The deadline for Israeli health insurance providers to bid on a government contract to provide coverage for asylum seekers expired last week without a single bidder vying for the contract, putting the entire program in jeopardy. Although the deadline for bidding on the tender expired last week, it was issued just before the November 1 election by […]
17.06.2023, Haaretz
Foreign Minister Considers Plan for Asylum Seekers to Leave Israel in Return for Professional Training
12.06.2023, Haaretz
Education Ministry Tries to Create Program to Prepare Asylum Seekers’ Children for Life Abroad, Not Israel
08.06.2023, Haaretz
ASSAF Activity Report 2022
23.03.2023
A Year Into The War In Ukraine
24.02.2023
A year on, Ukrainian refugees in Israel getting ‘inadequate’ aid — rights group
20.02.2023, TImes Of Israel
A year on, Ukrainian refugees in Israel getting ‘inadequate’ aid — rights group
20.02.2023, TImes of israel
One year into the war, Israel is still withholding adequate health and welfare services from Ukrainian refugees – Position paper on the situation of Ukrainian refugees after one year in Israel
February 2023, Orly Levinson-Sela, Public Advocacy Director, ASSAF
Israel Hampering Ukrainians From Leading a Dignified Life, UN Envoy for Refugees in Israel Tells Haaretz
19.02.2023, Haaretz
Harming Refugees Endangers Democracy and Harming Democracy Endangers Refugees
January 2023, Dr. Shani Bar-Tuvia, Refugee Rights Forum
Refugees from Africa: Situation Report 2022
Refugees from Africa: Situation Report 2022
24.01.2023
“Israel is not a refugee accepting country”: NGO briefing on asylum seekers
NGOs Briefing on Asylum Seekers in Israel Demographics & legal status African asylum seekers: 20,000 Eritrean nationals and 4,000 Sudanese nationals are living in Israel for more than a decade and hold “conditional release permits” (2A5 visa). Following a 2021 Supreme Court decision, some 2000 Darfuris received temporary resident permits that require renewal every six […]
15.12.2022
“We know how to act even when the political situation is hostile and make a change for the better”
16.11.2022
PROTECTION OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS’ RIGHTS IN ISRAEL – Status Report October 2022
November 2022
Female Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Israel – Vulnerable to Exploitation, Harm, Solicitation for Prostitution and Human Trafficking
September 2022
The Minister of Interior, Ayelet Shaked, has announced a new policy that bans the employment of asylum seekers
29.08.2022
Electric bicycle and scooter theory test for holders of “2A5” visa
17.08.2022
“They tell a person to leave, but he has nowhere to go”: The ban on employment of asylum seekers in 17 cities
03.08.2022
Asylum Seekers from Africa: Situation Report June 2022
17.07.2022
Being the Child of Asylum Seekers in Israel ‘Hurts Every Day’
10.07.2022, Haaretz
Israel decided to limit refugee employment. Why should we care? – opinion
06.07.2022, The Jerusalem Post
Israel Bars Asylum Seekers From Most Jobs in Major Cities
30.06.2022, Haaretz
Israel’s Policy on Asylum Seekers Is ‘Unsustainable’, UN Representative Charges
19.06.2022, Haaretz
Israel Lifted Protections for Congolese Asylum Seekers Without Consulting Foreign Ministry
24.05.2022, Haaretz
Court Blocks Lifting of Israel’s Deportation Ban on Congolese Asylum Seekers
10.05.2022, Haaretz
Most Aid Requests by Ukrainian Refugees in Israel Are for Food, but Funding Relies on Civil Society
17.04.2022, Haaretz
Israeli Minister Lifts Blanket Ban on Expelling Congolese Asylum Seekers
07.04.2022, Haaretz
While Israel Plans to Offer Medical Coverage for Elderly Ukrainians, Asylum Seekers Still Need to Wait
03.04.2022, Haaretz
The Refugee Rights Forum in Israel join the public outcry calling for a change in policy concerning refugees from Ukraine
15.03.2022
Denied asylum in Israel, Eritreans are welcomed by Canadian Jews
21.01.2022, Christian Science Monitor
‘Breaking the ghettos’: The struggle to desegregate Tel Aviv’s schools
16.01.2022, +972 Mag
Israel Rejected 98.5 Percent of Eritrean Asylum Requests Over Two Years
05.01.2022, Haaretz
Education Ministry Comes Out Against Mixing Refugee and Israeli Kids in Schools
19.12.2021, Haaretz
Israel Approves Millions for Day Care for Asylum Seekers’ Children
12.12.2021, Haaretz
Law Letting Israel Impose Restrictions on Asylum Seekers Expires, in Win for Left-wing Ministers
08.12.2021, Haaretz
Israel Likely to Delay Court Order to Grant Temporary Residency to 2,440 Sudanese Asylum Seekers
07.12.2021, Haaretz
‘Now I feed my children every night’: asylum seekers in Tel Aviv turning to food bank
07.11.2021, The National News
Israel to Reconsider Refused Tigrayan Asylum Pleas
07.11.2021, Haaretz
Interior Minister Pushes for Separation of Asylum Seekers’ Children From Israelis in Tel Aviv Schools
31.10.2021, Haaretz
No status, no future: The life of a child asylum seeker in Israel
27.10.2021, Al Jazeera
Israeli Health Ministry’s Bureaucratic Errors Stymie Asylum Seekers’ Bid for Green Pass
19.10.2021, Haaretz
Editorial | In Denying Healthcare to Asylum Seekers, Shaked Hits a New Low
17.10.2021, Haaretz
State Can Bar Asylum Seekers From Working in Some Cities, Israel’s Top Court Rules
01.10.2021, Haaretz
Opinion | Israel’s Interior Minister Knows She Can’t Deport the Asylum Seekers
09.07.2021, Haaretz
Israel downgraded in State Department human trafficking report
02.07.2021, The Times of Israel
Israel Was Asked to Reexamine 3,000 Asylum Requests This Year. It Granted One
21.06.2021, Haaretz
Israeli Ministry Refuses to Help Asylum Seekers Retrieve Money Stolen by Employers
25.10.2020, Haaretz
Israel’s High Court Blasts Law Requiring Asylum Seekers to Deposit 20% of Wages
08.05.2019, Haaretz