Israel's African Asylum Seekers Go on Strike

Strange signs greeted the customers of cafés and restaurants in Tel Aviv this week. “Today we will use plastic utensils,” one of them read. Another, on a shuttered bar in Jaffa, announced that the place would open later than usual and would serve a “limited menu.” The reason? Thousands of African migrants, who have found shelter in the city’s southern neighborhoods, working off-the-book jobs as dishwashers, cleaners, or cooks, had gone on strike. For the second day in a row, they took...