eritrea Archives – Jewish Journal

Deporting illegal immigrants: Israel’s unresolved challenge

Shmuel Rosner August 29, 2017

David Siegel’s tachlis diplomacy

David Suissa May 18, 2016

Teaching Eritrean soldiers drip-irrigation technology was not how David Siegel envisioned the start of his career in public diplomacy.

As Europe takes in migrants, Israel tries to keep them out

Jewish Journal September 8, 2015

With hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring across the borders of the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a landmark change in policy last month: Germany would begin to accept Syrian refugees, no matter how they got there.

Leaving Israel, Africans face detention, possibly death

Simone Wilson March 11, 2014

“When the conflict started in the Darfur region and we came to Israel, all the people knew why,” said Yeman Adam, a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker who fled to Israel in 2008.

‘You’ll be free. Welcome!’: Seeking asylum

Simone Wilson January 16, 2014

Daniel Angosom was just 18 when he escaped a lifetime of compulsory army service in Eritrea, fleeing to Sudan through his country’s northern border. It was in Sudan, while working as a cattle herder, that Angosom — like thousands of African asylum seekers before him — was kidnapped and sold to Bedouin gangs in the Sinai desert.