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Israelis protesting government corruption and threats to freedom of expression, Petah Tikva, June 3, 2017. (Screenshot)

WATCH: Hundreds of Israelis protest government corruption

At the beginning of June, hundreds of Israelis gathered in Petah Tikva to protest against the slow progress on investigations into government corruption, particularly the scandals surrounding Netanyahu, as well as against threats to freedom of expression. Read more: Civil society groups join forces to protect freedom of speech Netanyahu scandal exposes corruption in the…

By Social TV June 21, 2017

Hundreds demonstrate to call for the release of Averu Mengistu, missing in Gaza for nearly three years, Tel Aviv, June 3, 2017. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: Hundreds call for release of Ethiopian-Israeli held in Gaza

Hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday to call for the release of Avera Mengistu, who has been missing in Gaza for 1,000 days. In nearby Petah Tikva, hundreds demonstrated against police brutality and threats to freedom of expression. Photos: Oren Ziv / Activestills (Tel Aviv), Orly Noy (Petah Tikva) Hundreds of people marched down…

By Activestills June 3, 2017

A press conference held by the Sudanese community in southern Tel Aviv, February 8 2016. The press conference was held following an in Ashkelon in which an African man stabbed an Israeli soldier, for reasons that are yet to be determined but suspected as nationalistic. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

‘Israelis won’t rent to us, they’re disconnecting us from electricity’

The Petah Tikva municipality disconnected dozens of apartments where African asylum seekers were living from electricity, the mayor doesn’t like seeing black people in public, and casual racism has a common occurrence. Faisal, a refugee from Darfur, describes what it’s like to live in a city where he is unwanted. By Yael Marom The following testimony…

By +972 Magazine March 4, 2017

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Members of the Eritrean community in Israel light candles at a memorial service for a memorial ceremony for asylum seeker Habtom Zarhum in Levinsky park in south Tel Aviv, October 21, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Israeli teens charged for brutally beating asylum seeker to death

Darfuri asylum seeker Babikir Adham-Uvdo was beaten to death by two teenagers after he was allegedly seen speaking to a group of young women. Why aren’t more Israelis talking about it? By John Brown* Emmett Till was an African-American teenager from Mississippi who was lynched on August 14, 1955 during a visit to his relatives. His…

By +972 Magazine December 4, 2016

Palestinians workers walk in the early morning next to the Wall and an Israeli military tower to cross the Eyal Israeli military checkpoint, November 2011 (photo: Activestills)

Palestinian employment: The phantom workers of Israel

An estimated 30,000 Palestinian laborers work in Israel without permits, in predominantly labor intensives jobs. Pay is poor, social rights are virtually nonexistent, and conditions in the workplace are often hazardous. A group of Palestinian workers tell their story from a construction site in Petah Tikva. By Alon Aviram “This place is a luxury penthouse” said…

By +972 Magazine December 7, 2012

A Christmas journey part 11: Granpa Frost & Snowflake

<< The Christmas Journey Home Petah Tikva – Ben Gurion airport – Ashdod – Givatayim, Merry Rashdistvo! I was hungry, walking at dusk into the city of Petah Tikvah from the Baptist Village. I took a peek into a a small Russian tavern. The looks of it didn’t really work my appetite, but something in…

By Yuval Ben-Ami December 21, 2011

Placard notifying of segregated event, with the Chief Inspector as a guest of honor (Photo: MK Zahava Gal'on, used with permission)

Despite High Court ruling, gender segregation in Israel only expanding

The police will not prevent segregation in Jerusalem this year – instead, the Chief of Police will even join in The High Court of Justice (HCJ), no doubt with a stern visage, ruled today (Hebrew) that gender segregation in the streets of the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighbourhood of Mea Shearim is no longer to be tolerated…

By Yossi Gurvitz October 16, 2011

New racist rabbinical letter warns against dating Arabs

Poll finds half of the Jewish public in Israel supporting the ruling against renting homes to Arabs As if the Rabbis’ edict against renting homes to Arabs wasn’t enough, a new letter, made public yesterday, has some 30 well-known wives of Orthodox Rabbis warning Jewish girls against dating Arabs or even working with them. Ynet…

By Noam Sheizaf December 29, 2010