Filipino guest workers come to Israel — and decide to embrace Judaism Like many of their compatriots, Bernadette and Ronaldo Lopez came to Israel in search of work and a new life. This year, they bar mitzvahed their son.
Thousands demonstrate in Tel Aviv against deportation of African asylum seekers Hundreds of African asylum seekers in the Holot Detention Center in southern Israel have also begun a hunger strike.
Gentrification — via gardening — slowly comes to derelict South Tel Aviv Grassroots efforts by the likes of the Onya Collective — who aim to ‘pimp your hood with some o that eco-lovin” — seek to improve life for the residents of the tough streets that surround the city’s New Central Bus Station.
