Video: Haaretz' Gideon Levy spends the day with Yitzhak Muhammad Said, an asylum seeker from Darfur who recently came to Israel.

By Gideon Levy, Haaretz

Haaretz' Gideon Levy spends the day with Yitzhak Muhammad Said, an asylum seeker from Darfur who recently came to Israel.

Said, along with dozens like him, lives in Tel Aviv's Levinski Park. The park has become a makeshift home for dozens of refugees who come to Israel seeking asylum and work, only to be caught in the quagmire of Israeli bureaucracy with very little options left.


A new law approved by the Israeli Knesset this month called "The infiltration prevention law" prevents the refugees from working and has created a fierce debate within Israeli society.





http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-african-refugee-in-south-tel-aviv-1.409482




Photos: 1) African refugee resting in Levinsky Park, South Tel Aviv 2) Down town Tel Aviv