Published: 26 April 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
How Netanyahu turned victory into all-around defeat in African migrant crisis (Times of Israel)
DAVID HOROVITZ The prime minister secured a win-win arrangement but scrapped it under pressure. Now all the asylum-seekers are staying, Israel is being battered, and his rivals smell blood
Jewish lawmakers call on Netanyahu to reconsider UN deal on asylum seekers (Haaretz)
Democratic congressmen and women write to PM, saying they were 'dismayed' that agreement to resettle 16,500 Africans in West was cancelled within 24 hours of being announced due to right-wing pressure
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State announces all migrant expulsion orders rescinded (Ynet)
Responding to petitions to halt forcible expulsion, state says no new orders will be given to Eritrean, Sudanese migrants, existing orders voided; willing departure process to continue; 'Forcibly deporting to third country not an option at this time,' state says as PM Netanyahu, Interior Minister Deri move to reopen detention facilities
Photo: Asylum seekers protest against deportation in Tel Aviv, Israel, February 24 (Ariel Schalit/AP)
