Israel Profile

Introduction

List of Detention Sites

Map of Detention Sites

Country Links

Reference List

Quick Facts

Prisons used for the detention of migrants: 3 (2011)

Migrant detention facilities: 3 (2011)

Est. total immigration detention capacity: 2,500 (2011)

Max. length of administrative detention: No limit

Asylum seekers: 30,000 (2010)

Migrant workers: 300,000 (2010)

Est. undocumented foreign workers: 120,000 - 300,000 (2010)

Number of deportations: 3,300 (2008)

 

Last updated: February 2011

Israel Detention Profile

Country Links

Government 

International Organisations

NGOs and Research Groups

Media

 

Country Links

 

Government

 

Immigration Authority

http://www.hagira.gov.il/ImmigrationCMS

 

Knesset Information and Research Centre

http://www.knesset.gov.il/mmm/eng/index.asp

 

 

International Organisations

 

UNHCR Israel Profile

http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/page?page=49e4864b6

 

United Nation Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees 

http://www.unrwa.org/

 

 

NGOs and Research Groups

 

Association for Civil Rights in Israel

http://www.acri.org.il/en/

 

African Refugee Development Center

http://www.ardc-israel.org/

 

Amnesty International Israel

http://www.amnesty.org.il/

 

ASSAF - Aid to Refugees and Asylum Seekers

http://www.assaf.org.il/

 

B’Tselem

www.btselem.org

 

Hotline for Migrant Workers

http://www.hotline.org.il/english/index.htm

 

Israel Religious Action Center – Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism

http://www.irac.org/

 

Kav LaOved  (Worker’s Hotline)

http://www.kavlaoved.org.il/default_eng.asp

 

The Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ)

www.iaej.co.il/

 

 

Media

 

Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/

 

Jerusalem Post

http://www.jpost.com/