Claim: African immigration to Israel has been happening  in the past, such that a special visa, renewable every three months, was once given to 16,766 African illegal immigrants allowing them to stay and work in Israel.
Evidence: This special visa requires renewal every three months. 16,766 of them received a special visa (ס 2א 5) granted to illegal immigrants who are non-deportable asylum seekers. This phenomenon began in the second half of the 2000s, when a large number of people from Africa entered Israel, mainly through the then-lightly fenced border between Israel and Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula.