Africa: In Israel, Refugees Welcome Gains Small Foothold

4 September 2015

Jerusalem — The Facebook request was simple: "Man needs a home." The actual demand was perhaps less so. Late in August, Israeli activists began asking fellow citizens to take strangers - asylum seekers or refugees just freed from detention - into their homes.

Dan Levi, a university student in Jerusalem who turns 27 in a few days time, was one of those to respond to the call. When he heard that hundreds of men, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, were in urgent need of somewhere - anywhere - to sleep, he offered up what he had in his flatshare: a couch, a key, and a neatly folded set of linens.

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