South Tel Aviv

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.

By Ben Sales July 6, 2018 3:46 pm

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.

February 25, 2018 11:27 am

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.

December 9, 2015 5:28 pm