...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
n citizen is awarded permanent residency in Israel, in what Interior Minister Moshe Arbel calls a "thank you" for saving an IDF officer’s life on October 7.
Mulugeta Tsagi gave life-saving first aid to an IDF lieutenant colonel shot in the abdomen by Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...Death Eaters in Sderot. Tsagi remained with the officer for hours, before helping transport him to a hospital.
The officer, named only by the Hebrew letter Yud, later asked Arbel to arrange Tsagi’s permanent residency.