TEL AVIV, Israel — In a dusty detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, Tomas Yomani, an asylum seeker from Eritrea in East Africa, has been biding his time for nine months while under the watch of Israeli guards.
Yomani, 30, can’t work because the nearest city is hours away. And if he misses roll call taken three times a day, he could be deported to another African country and risk personal danger eight years after he fled Eritrea because of human rights abuses.