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Israel’s ‘Deposit Law’ Is Pushing Asylum Seekers to Financial Ruin
An Israeli law enacted in mid-2017 amounts to a de facto salary cut for African asylum seekers, plunging the community into a financial crisis, reports Steven Davidson.