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Haredi protesters gather at Maccabim checkpoint over reported draft evader arrest - report

The soldiers at the scene told the crowd that the detainee was in fact an undocumented resident, not a draft evader, the report added.

HAREDI PROTESTERS block Highway 1, June 1, 2026; Illustrative.
The IDF conducts large-scale anti-illegal immigration operations in the West Bank on July 26, 2026.

WATCH: Over 30 arrested in crackdown on smuggling of illegal West Bank immigrants

Weapons and ammunition seized by Israel Police in a raid in Kfar Yarka on July 10, 2026.

Police uncover massive weapons cache in Druze village, complete longstanding investigations

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to the media outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, April 15, 2026.

Ben-Gvir demands urgent action to expel illegal immigrants in southern Tel Aviv and beyond


NGO: Special migrant courts significantly defective

Prior to May 2014, there were special migrant courts but appeals from those courts went up to standard civilian District Courts, ensuring that poor decisions were reviewed at a high level.

AFRICAN MIGRANTS sit on pipes outside Holot, a detention centre in Israel’s southern Negev desert.

Cabinet okays step to encourage illegal workers to leave by choice

“Now that we have almost completely stopped the infiltration phenomenon to Israel we need to continue to work to move forward ways to get those in the country to leave,” says Netanyahu.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from the Holot detention center in the Negev

NGO cites serious shortcoming in treatment of detained migrants by Israel

At several detention centers, many migrants did not even know they had access to healthcare.

The Holot Detention Facility in the Negev.

Knesset lowers maximum migrant detention in Holot to 12 months

The change follows the Supreme Court’s strike down of a 20-month maximum that had been allowed under a previous amendment.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from the Holot detention center in the Negev

Knesset votes on amendment to anti-infiltration law

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Shas) said Monday that he expects the amendment to be brought for its second and third readings in the coming days.

The Knesset plenum

Migrant caregivers’ ‘#OurHands Campaign’

Organizations around the world are now rallying through a campaign called “Our Hands” to share information with domestic workers and encourage collective mobilization.

An African migrant worker sleeps on a bench of a bus station in south Tel Aviv

Analysis: Senior Eritrean Church official stuck in bureaucratic limbo over detention

Father Semere summoned to Holot detention center.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from the Holot detention center in the Negev

Ayoub Kara: Hire Jordanian workers, not African migrants

Kara tells Post new border crossing with Jordan would boost tourism, trade, and allow for another 4000 Jordanian day workers

AFRICAN MIGRANTS sit on pipes outside Holot, a detention centre in Israel’s southern Negev desert.

Nazi ‘shadows’ are not lurking in Europe’s embrace of migrants

Sadly, several modern journalists appear incapable of discussing current events without references to the Holocaust “shaped by contemporaneous values and ideological pressures.”

Syrian migrants queue with others to buy a ticket for a ferry trip to Athens from the Greek island of Lesbos

Refugees threaten Europe's Christian roots, says Hungary's PM

In an opinion piece for Germany's Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, Orban said the people of Europe were at odds with the majority of governments on the refugee crisis.

Christians carry a cross after a procession in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Good Friday, during Holy Week in Jerusalem's Old City