The Pulitzer Center posted on 27 August 2026 an article titled "Israel's Ethiopian Asylum Seekers Fight Deportation Efforts" by Theia Chatelle.
Israel's asylum approval rate is 0.1 percent or about 5 people a year. Asylum applications for 1,334 Ethiopian citizens are currently pending, out of about 30,000 total asylum seekers. Most of the others are Eritrean or Sudanese.
