Dana Weiler-Polak

The 14 women jailed since April were part of a group of 40 women and girls who had gone to a town on the Ethiopia-Sudan border in hopes of finding work.

Immigration Authority begins rounding up African migrants for deportation; Knesset committee discusses new plan regarding Israel's handling of asylum seekers, refugees and migrant workers.

The South Sudanese are the most concerned of all, after a Jerusalem court last week legitimized their deportation.

According to new government bill, the maximum penalty for employing migrants will be raised from a two-year jail sentence to five years.

Bank offersd workers who are pregnant or on maternity leave 'improved retirement conditions' if they sign a form consenting to be fired.

Some 1,000 South Sudanese are believed to be in Israel, part of a larger influx of African migrants who have poured into the country in recent years; Yishai says court ruling is first of many such steps.

Ethiopian woman was raped during passage through Sinai, then kept in Israel’s Saharonim prison because women’s shelters had no vacancy.

Interior Minister gives task force two months to present ways to stop the influx of African migrants into Israel.

Directive calls for 'creating accommodations for infiltrators, as quickly and for as many people as possible;' Defense Ministry searching for locations.

From building a new border fence to setting up the world's largest detention facility for asylum seekers, Israel's government has tried a number of different strategies designed to keep African migrants out.

Until now, migrants caught by IDF have been transferred to the Saharonim detention facility in the south; Interior Minister says migrants do not recognize that Israel 'belongs to the white man.'

The individual served two previous prison terms for sexual offenses against minors.

Weinstein makes remarks to Jerusalem court, after five organizations file petition to prevent deportation of South Sudanese citizens; asylum cases will still be considered on individual basis.

Meanwhile, in south Tel Aviv, law enforcement tries to preempt fights.

At Eritrean Independence Day protest, migrants claim Israel maintains warm relations with Isaias Afwerki's regime, despite human rights abuses; say fleeing these abuses, not employment, is the reason they are in Israel.

African migrant finds it hard to cope with new reality after being at Wednesday night's demonstration.

Police extends remand of 17 Israeli protesters arrested during rally for attacking African asylum seekers; Danny Dannon calls to remove African migrants from city centers.

Judge decides to release the minor suspect to public boarding school and not to uncle's custody, despite favorable social worker report.

Hotline for Migrant Workers files a police report about the calls and also filed a complaint against Interior Minister Eli Yishai for incitement.

19-year-old woman raped and robbed by Eritrean asylum seekers while making her way home through southern Tel Aviv.

Plaintiffs charge that Clal, Dikla, Maccabi, Clalit and Leumit, refused them nursing insurance due to their disabilities.

A foreign worker was employed illegally at Yehuda Weinstein's home when he was instated as attorney general.

Thirteen-year-old girl held at station due to a shortage of care facilities for at-risk children.

As tension between foreigners and locals increases, residents blame government of inaction and buy tear gas for protection.

Two firebombs hurled at a house in Hatikva neighborhood, less than two weeks after similar attack on homes of asylum seekers.