Sudanese migrants in Israel are watching the fighting roiling their nation with trepidation. They also worry that Israel's right-wing government could overhaul the judiciary in ways that would make their lives as asylum-seekers intolerable.
Omer Easa from Sudan poses for a portrait inside the offices of the Hotline for Migrant Workers, a rights group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, April 30, 2023. "My heart is there. My head is there. It is just that my body is here," said Easa, 31, a political dissident who fled the war-torn region of Darfur in 2012. "We live here often thanks to the graces of the Supreme Court.
Backers of migrants like Easa say their rights will likely come under greater threat if Israel’s government, its most right-wing ever, moves ahead on a contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary.
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