Asylum System

Israel Was Asked to Reexamine 3,000 Asylum Requests This Year. It Granted One Date: 21.6.21 Source: Haaretz, Bar Peleg and Netael Bandel Israel has approved just one out of 3,000 asylum requests from Eritrean refugees in the past six months, reviewing a mere 103 cases despite being ordered to examine the cases by the attorney general two years ago.
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Tel Aviv Gets Tiny Fraction of 'Hundreds of Millions' Netanyahu Pledged to Resettle Asylum Seekers Date: 24.11.20 Source: Haaretz, Bar Peleg Two and a half years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he would allocate hundreds of millions of shekels for rehabilitation of south Tel Aviv, on Sunday the cabinet approved a plan to distribute 20 million shekels ($6 million) to eight “national priority” areas that are home to la
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Israel Ignoring or Mishandling 99.7 Percent of Asylum Requests, NGO Says Date: 12.8.20 Source: Haaretz, Lee Yaron The Population and Immigration Authority failed to respond to or rejected without thoroughly examining 99.7 percent of asylum seeker requests filed from 2011 through 2019.
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Announcing New Criteria, Israel to Revisit All Asylum Requests by Eritreans Date: 17.7.19 Source: Haaretz, Lee Yaron Israel will reexamine all requests from Eritrean asylum seekers, including 3,000 that were previously turned down, a decision by a special committee said on Tuesday, as it announced new assessment criteria.
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NGO: STATE MUST PROTECT RIGHTS OF MIGRANT MOTHERS, CHILDREN Date: 15.4.19 Source: Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post The state must do more to protect the rights of detained African migrant mothers and children, the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants said in its annual 2018 report.
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Israel to Reexamine 1,500 Sudanese Asylum Requests After Interviews Deemed 'Not In-depth Enough' Date: 17.12.18 Source: Haaretz, Lee Yaron The Interior Ministry's Population and Immigration Authority has admitted to the High Court of Justice that its examination of requests for asylum in Israel by asylum seekers from the Darfur region of Sudan has not been sufficiently thorough.
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New UN Refugee Representative: If Israel Doesn't Act Now, It Will Fail This Generation Date: 1.12.18 Source: Haaretz, Lee Yaron The UN Refugee Agency’s new representative in Israel says he’s greatly concerned about asylum seekers’ uncertain status in the country – an intolerable situation for anyone who believes in humanism and human dignity, as he put it.
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High Court Gives Israel 30 Days to Check Darfurians’ Asylum Requests Date: 30.10.18 Source: Haaretz, Lee Yaron The High Court of Justice on Monday gave the state 30 days to submit a timetable and work plan for examining the asylum requests of Sudanese asylum seekers from the Darfur region.
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State Comptroller Reports (2014, 2018) Date: 3.7.18 Source: ASSAF; The Forum for Refugee Rights in Israel Documents pertaining to the State Comptroller Reports of 2014 and 2018, which looked into Israel's handling and treatment of asylum seekers. State Comptroller Report: Foreigners not Subject to Deportation (May 2014) Position paper: State Comptroller Harshly Criticized Israel’s Handling of Asylum Requests (May 2018) Position paper: The State Continues to Neglect Asylum Seekers while Harming them and the Residents of South Tel Aviv (May 2018)
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