“I went home with nothing,” Rosemarie Cote, a former client of Fokara’s, says. During a phone interview from her home in the Philippines, Cote recounts her experience with Fokara. She had been working in Israel without a visa for eight years – sending her money back to the Philippines to support her seven children – when …
On March 10, Haaretz reported that Muhammad Fokara, an Israeli-Arab attorney, would be suing the state of Israel for over 800 million shekels on behalf of the Gazan family, Al Samooni. On March 11, however, Haaretz ran a second article stating that the Al Samooni family had only heard about the lawsuit from the …
Fokara’s law The Jerusalem Post, March 27, 2009 Pinto Baptist, an Indian worker currently living in Tel Aviv, was desperate for help in December of 2008. In India, he’d borrowed $9,000 from friends and family to pay the agency fees it cost to come to Israel to work. But when he arrived here, in July …