Asylum-seekers often turn to us at the Hotline due to bureaucratic abuse at the hand of Ministry of Interior clerks, but we haven’t encountered such a kafkaesque story in a while. Mahari is an Eritrean asylum-seeker who...

“On Tuesday, my visa ran out. My employer told me that I cannot work without a visa for even just one day, so I went on Monday to the new Ministry of Interior office in Bnei...

Written by: Elizabeth Tsurkov *Trigger warning: The post contains a testimony detailing torture* Hundreds of asylum-seekers who had survived the Sinai torture camps were jailed in Israel under different version of the Anti-Infiltration Law since the summer...

International Migrants Day is marked annually throughout the world to celebrate the contributions of migrants to the countries they reside in. This is the 15th year in which human rights organizations and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque mark...

Last month, the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants filed a case to the High Court of Justice on behalf of 138 asylum-seekers who’ve been detained for nearly 30 months without trial in Israel. In response to the...

Asylum-seekers began arriving in Israel in large numbers in 2006. Since then, the policies implemented by the government have failed one after the other. Following a years-long policy of abandoning asylum-seekers to their fate in southern Tel...