sw.huji.ac.il/en/article/2551: We are happy to announce that a research project led by Dr. Itay Greenspan, a member of our faculty, in collaboration with Dr. Deby Babis, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Truman Institute, on organizations of migrant workers in Israel has received a research grant from the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University. As part of this ongoing project, Dr. Greenspan and Dr. Babis helped organizing a leadership-training event for over a 100 leaders of the Filipino community in Israel. The training event was covered in Focal, a local magazine serving the Filipino community
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Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.