{"id":466058,"date":"2018-02-20T21:40:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T21:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/ghanaians-seeking-asylum-in-israel-are-not-serious-israeli-ambassador-to-ghana\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T21:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T21:40:58","slug":"ghanaians-seeking-asylum-in-israel-are-not-serious-israeli-ambassador-to-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/ghanaians-seeking-asylum-in-israel-are-not-serious-israeli-ambassador-to-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians seeking asylum in Israel \u2018are not serious\u2019 \u2013 Israeli Ambassador to Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 20 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/79949885.295.jpg\" alt=\"Mehl Sarcastic\" title=\"Mehl Sarcastic\" width=\"295\" height=\"183\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Israel&#8217;s Ambassador to Ghana, H. E. Ami Mehl<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519162858_643_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, H E. Ami Mehl has described the migration of Ghanaians to Israel to seek asylum as a joke.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it is ridiculous for Ghanaians to seek asylum in Israel since Ghana is one of the most democratic countries in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media at the British Council Tuesday, Ami Mehl revealed that between 2014 and 2017, about 381 Ghanaians sought asylum in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last four years, 2014 to 2017, 381 Ghanaians were seeking for asylum in Israel. Really? Ghanaians need refuge in Israel? It\u2019s a joke. This is not serious. Ghana is one of the most democratic countries in the world,\u201d he posited.<\/p>\n<p>He advised Ghanaians not to travel out of Ghana with the aim of seeking asylum abroad but should rather search for greener pastures.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that Africans seeking refuge in Israel will not be deported but given an opportunity to make ends meet if they have a valid reason for staying there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who are seeking for refuge are not going to be deported. They are going to be checked and if there is a reason for them to stay, they will stay. If there is no reason being refugees, they will leave. But it will take time,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli government sparked a social media outrage with its decision to deport around 40,000 asylum seekers from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>According to Israel&#8217;s Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, people in Tel Aviv live under &#8220;migrants&#8217; terror&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hotovely specified that citizens in southern neighborhoods in Tel Aviv were under threat of violence and sexual harassment by African migrants, which she refers to as &#8220;infiltrators&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kw3bBX7qAc4?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 43 updated by: 73 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 20 February 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2018-02-20 play videoIsrael&#8217;s Ambassador to Ghana, H. E. Ami Mehl Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, H E. Ami Mehl has described the migration of Ghanaians to Israel to seek asylum as a joke. According to him, it is ridiculous for Ghanaians to seek asylum in Israel since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":466059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}