A Sudanese migrant held in captivity by human traffickers in the Sinai Peninsula, at an Israeli shelter, Tel Aviv,  The SINAI Connection Lina Attalah April 23, 2013 "When the police asked what was in the car, the driver said potatoes and tomatoes,” recounts Effrant, a young Eritrean man, describing how he’d been covered with a blanket in the pickup truck along with some twenty... 

After eight days of camping on the border with Egypt, three of 21 stranded Eritreans given permission to proceed By YIFA YAAKOV and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF September 6, 2012, 6:50 pm Israeli soldiers stand guard on Tuesday as Eritrean asylum seekers sit on the ground behind a border fence, after they attempted to cross illegally from Egypt into Israel. (photo credit: AP/Ariel... 

An attacker has stabbed three Eritrean men in a Tel Aviv video store in what police said they were initially treating as a racist attack.   AFP "All three people that were stabbed were taken to hospital with light to moderate injuries," police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld told AFP. "A suspect who was in the video shop at the time fled the scene. Police are searching for him." He...