Omer Easa is watching the violence roiling his native Sudan with deep trepidation. The further Sudan sinks into chaos and violence, he fears, the longer he is likely to remain an unrecognized asylum-seeker in Israel, where he has few protections.
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.