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Asylum seeker to launch podcast to explore African refugee experiences in Israel and beyond

By JOANIE MARGULIES

Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner speaks next to Carinthia's Governor Peter Kaiser, Günther Albel, mayor of the town of Villach and Carinthia's Police Chief Michaela Kohlweiss at a press conference outside a police station in the town of Villach, February 16, 2025.

Deadly Austria attack: suspect swore allegiance to IS, had IS flag

African asylum seekers line up to apply for a visa in Bnei Brak, Israel

Asylum seekers were victims of Oct. 7. Israel's gov't must do more to support them

By Tali Ehrenthal

Asylum seeker from Egypt attacks shopkeeper in Rome, Italy.

Jewish boy beaten in Rome by homeless Egyptian asylum seeker

By MICHAEL STARR

POPULATION AND Immigration Authority data place the current asylum-seeking population at 30,000, with an estimated 4,000 from Usman’s home country, Sudan. An additional 19,000 asylum-seekers are from neighboring Eritrea.

14 years in limbo: A journey from Darfur to building a life in Israel

By JOANIE MARGULIES

REBELS LED by HTS capitalize on their swift takeover of Aleppo in northern Syria and Hama in the west-central region by pressing onward to Homs, in Hama, last Friday. Having pounded anti-Assad factions for years, Russia cannot expect accommodation from HTS, say the writers.

Austria offers Syrian refugees 1,000 euros to return home

By REUTERS

Crew members of the Geo Barents migrant rescue ship, operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), distribute life jackets to a group of 61 migrants on a boat during a rescue operation in international waters off the coast of Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea September, 2023.

UN refugee chief tells countries to drop ineffective border controls

By REUTERS

Artie Jacobowitz, a volunteer biomedical equipment engineer.

Ruach Hadash: Volunteer clinic in Haifa serves asylum-seeking refugees

By WENDY BLUMFIELD

Turkey-Syria Barrier, on the left is the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES).

Syrian human smuggler has refugee status claim rejected by German court

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People demonstrate on the day of a vote on the motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, in London, Britain, February 21, 2024.

UK grants Arab Israeli asylum due to 'well-founded fear' of 'apartheid'

By JOSH ARONSON

A German police officer holds wristbands used to tag suspected illegal migrants after they were detained by German police during their patrol along the German-Polish border to prevent illegal migration, in Forst, Germany, September 20, 2023.

EU border agency says stopping migration is impossible

By REUTERS

Thousands take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 1, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

LGBTQ+ Palestinians can request asylum in Israel, court rules

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane prepares to take off from the Benazir International airport in Islamabad, Pakistan, February 9, 2016.

Pakistan's National Airline faces crisis as yet another flight attendant vanishes into Canada

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE

Police guard while Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea protest outside a conference of regime supporters in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023

Eritreans arrested in Tel Aviv knife brawl, one asylum seeker killed

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea and pro regime activists clash with Israeli police in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023

Deputy Tel Aviv mayor and family attacked by Eritrean youth

By MICHAEL STARR

Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea protest outside a conference of regime supporters in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023

Religious Zionist MK to advance bill greatly limiting migration into Israel

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea protest outside a conference of regime supporters in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023

Eritrean asylum seeker clashes are unacceptable – don't make them worse - editorial

By JPOST EDITORIAL

JEWISH UKRAINIAN refugees arrive at an IFCJ-JDC emergency shelter in Chisinau, Moldova, March 2022.

SpaceX sued by US government over alleged asylee, refugee discrimination

By JOANIE MARGULIES