Petition to the High Court of Justice asks for medical treatment for two girls whose mothers are not Israeli

Physicians for Human Rights and the Adva Center submitted a petition today to the High Court of Justice against the Health Minister, the Interior Minister, the Social Security Authority

Six years in prison without cause

Many people hear the name "Sympatia" and smile. It describes a man who inspires immediate sympathy, kisses women's hands, hugs his male friends, cries when touched, is self-deprecating, and rages against injustice against others

Interior Ministry violates order banning the deportation of a foreign worker

Is the Ministry of Interior breaking the law? Tonight around midnight, a foreign worker from India named Raja Navamani was put on a plane and deported from Israel , in violation of a court order barring her deportation.

Ex-minister may have conned government for his maid

The police and state prosecution are drawing up a case against former religious affairs minister Aharon Abuhatzeira on charges that include defrauding the Interior Ministry in hiring a maid whom he allegedly treated like a personal slave.

Another insult: deported from Israel on unsupported suspicion and inexplicable considerations on the part of Interior Ministry employees

A woman in Nahariya invites her friend, an Azerbaijani national, on a visit to Israel for the holidays; she is detained for seven days and deported from Israel without explanation

The secret of the disappearing children

G. left a room in a church in southern Tel Aviv where she temporarily lives with her mother to start her first day of kindergarten

The price of sadism: compensation in Abuja

Six years after three soldiers with the Immigration Police beat a Nigerian national working as a driver for the Nigerian embassy in Israel

A sad story about a seven-month-old infant: her mother is a Ghanaian national who became mentally ill after her husband was arrested

What follows is a humanitarian case requiring the intervention of the courts. It concerns a foreign worker from Nigeria , the mother of a seven-month-old infant

Police criticized in arrest of illegal delivering tots to school

At 7:30 A.M. on April 8, members of the Immigration Police arrested Ebenezer Saba, a citizen of Ghana , as he parked his commercial vehicle opposite the Tel Aviv kindergarten to which he ferries the children of foreign workers every day

Squealing on society's weakest link

It appears there is one issue that manages to shake Israelis out of their apathy: Last year saw a marked rise in the number of reports to the police on foreign workers who are here without permits

The student begs the police not to arrest her father

The Immigration Police arrested a foreign worker couple who have lived in the country for many years. The father provided the police with certification from the school his daughter is attending

Ndala: the Beitar team is hell, get me out of here

Ibrahim Ndala, the Nigerian defensive player for Beitar Jerusalem, wants to leave the team and return to Maccabi Tel Aviv, from which he transferred to Beitar about a month ago

Xenophobia on trial

The Ministry of Interior has been detaining Faisal Medadel, a Somali national who fled his country in 1999 in fear for his life, in the foreign workers prison for more than two years, without formally charging him and without bringing him to trial

Memo: Detention lifted on a foreign worker after more than seven months in prison

In a courageous decision Judge Isaiah ordered the release of an individual detained for more than seven months due to lack of diplomatic relations with Chad and technical difficulties regarding his deportation, if he is not deported to his country before August 31, 2004.

Under state auspices: Turkish foreign workers obliged to work in a company under prejudicial conditions

The Tel Aviv District Court yesterday ruled that a Turkish foreign worker brought to Israel as part of a deal between Israeli Military Industries and the Turkish army should not be deported

The employee fired from the Ministry of Interior turns to Minister Poraz: "don't frame me like they did"

The employee who claims he was fired from the Ministry of Interior for revealing corruption and the abuse of foreign workers asked Minister Avraham Poraz yesterday not to participate in "framing" him, after the minister experienced something similar.

Fear of deportation is stronger than the fear of death

Members of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) are attempting to locate a woman who fled with her child who was being treated at the Wolfson Medical Center , after it has come to light that the child is suffering from pneumonia

Foreign worker: Kochi Mordechai exploited me in her restaurant

Kochi Mordechai, the ex-wife of former Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai, employed an African worker in her restaurant without paying him overtime, offering transportation, providing suitable social circumstances, or giving him a weekly day off.

Two children of foreign workers are in the Maasiyahu and Tzohar prisons in contravention of a District Court ruling

On Wednesday, July 15, we received appeals from two children being held in foreign workers' prisons, in complete contravention of a ruling issued by the District Court on July 9, 2004. Notices were sent to the Ghanaian and Nigerian embassies, as well as to the Immigration Police's legal counselor.

Should Eran Shendar be appointed as the state prosecutor?

Last week, the general committee headed by Attorney General Mani Mazuz recommended the appointment of attorney Eran Shendar, former head of the Ministry of Justice's police Internal Affairs Bureau, to the position of state prosecutor. Shendar was Attorney General Mani Mazuz's preferred candidate.

Children who don't exist

N.N. is 17. She was supposed to take her matriculation exams, but she was not permitted to because she does not have a national identification card. She came to Israel from Moldavia with her mother 11 years ago.

Letter: persecution of a worker

After working 12 years with no problems, 50-year-old Amy experienced some difficult moments last year that caused her mental suffering, grief, and depression.

ACRI comments on deportation of foreign workers: senior government officials threatened judges

In its annual report on the state of human rights in Israel , released today, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) says that power relations in the labor market that favor employers make workers fearful of complaining about infringements on their rights or suing their employers.

Head of the Foreign Workers Unit in the north accused of pressuring a judge

The Civil Service Commission filed charges against the head of the Ministry of Interior's Foreign Workers Unit in the north.

There is slavery in Israel ! Poraz's surprise: support for sponsorship system for employers of foreign workers

The Knesset committee held a session today to examine the petition submitted by human rights organizations against the sponsorship system, which requires foreign workers to work for only one employer

Kibbutz plant employs eight Thai workers in subhuman conditions

Members of the Immigration Police who raided the Oren Hacarmel factory on Kibbutz Ramat Hakovesh yesterday found eight Thai workers living there in inhumane conditions