Racist Israel

"After 16 years in Israel, I am not allowed to work and cannot get medical services," Oscar Olivier, an asylum seeker from Congo, told Ynet. Olivier, like many others asylum seekers in Israel, has filed a request to be recognized as a refugee 12 years ago, and has yet to receive an answer.  Data shows that the Interior Ministry has granted refugee status to only 17 people since 2008, leaving 43,000 asylum seekers without healthcare, work permits, education or any kind of aid. The migrants thus live in conditions of poverty, which inevitably leads to criminality."