Israel asylum seekers

Zionist Iranian dissident Ramin Parsa granted residency in Israel after years-long battle 

The permit gives Parsa temporary status for one year. After that, he said, he will have to apply again, with the possibility of eventually seeking permanent residency.

Ramin Parsa, an Iranian dissident and pro-Israel activist living in Jerusalem, was granted a one-year temporary residency permit. Photo taken October 11, 2026.
 Buses in central Jerusalem, February 12, 2025

Police arrest six minors, one Israeli suspect in gang-affiliated Tel Aviv bus assault

 SOME OF THE thousands of asylum seekers, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, who are living in Tel Aviv.

Asylum-seeking, refugee women in Israel endure higher poverty rates and exploitation - report

 Ukrainian refugees arrive in Israel on February 9, 2023

From one war to another: Ukrainian refugees in Israel left without safety net, NGO report says


Can a Jewish country say no to asylum seekers?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now renewed his pledge to forcibly deport African asylum-seekers to Rwanda, whose government will reportedly receive $5,000 per person sent there.

AFRICAN MIGRANTS walk with their luggage as they leave Holot detention center in the Negev in 2015.

Rwanda, Uganda deny deal with Israel to take in asylum seekers

"Fake news," one Rwandan diplomat said of the deal.

CHILDREN OF migrant workers play on a Tel Aviv beach on Independence Day, marking the 65th anniversary of the creation of the state last year.

Population and Immigration Authority: Zero ‘infiltrators’ entered in 2017

Human rights organizations continue to decry – as inhumane and antithetical to Jewish values – the policy of forcibly removing African refugees to a country as perilous as Rwanda.

African migrants sit at the Holot open detention center in the Negev in Southern Israel

Asylum-seekers protest 20% wage deduction law

Money to be returned once they leave Israel.

Protesters outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Thursday

Let them volunteer

Israel soldiers are volunteering in neighborhoods that house many asylum-seekers and are receiving mixed reactions.

Students at the Dizengoff School in South Tel Aviv

A gay Iranian in Tel Aviv

Poet Payam Feili seeks asylum in the Jewish state.

WHEN FEILI was a teenager, he watched Holocaust movies and spent his time learning about this ‘shocking tragedy.’

‘Racist’ Yahad ad barred by Elections Committee

Election Committee also claims that advertisement incites violence against migrant workers and asylum seekers.

Eli Yishai