Tag Archive: ASSAF: Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel

High Court Rules African Asylum Seekers Cannot be Detained Indefinitely for Refusing Deportation

Human rights organizations feared a policy of forced deportation to un-named third countries.

Evaluating Social Change

A Shatil conference is helping Israeli non-profits learn techniques and best practices for evaluating policy change work.

NIF / Shatil Social Justice Fellows, 2012 – 2013 Cohort

Aaren Alpert was born and raised in Southern California where she was active in USY and Camp Ramah. As a senior in high school, Aaren interned for the Public Affairs Director at the Counsel General of Israel in Los Angeles. Before attending college, Aaren spent a year in Israel on the Conservative Movement’s gap year…

Refugees Without Refuge: Working to Make #HolotVoices Heard

Asylum seekers held in the Holot detention facility will finally have heat in the cold weather following legal action by the NIF network.

High Court Orders Closure of Detention Camps for African Refugees

In a major victory for human rights, Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that refugees can no longer be held indefinitely in detention camps.

Filling the Gaps. Preparing for the Future.

NIF supports a network of Israelis who are working now to defend Israel’s most vulnerable and continue to build a shared society after the conflict ends.

New Israel Fund-Supported Groups Win Key Court Victory for African Refugees

Washington DC: A landmark victory for human rights was won in Israel today when an expanded panel of the Supreme Court invalidated the Third Amendment to the Anti-Infiltration Law passed by the Knesset in 2012, which incarcerated more than 2000 African refugees without due process or recourse to the possibility of asylum.