In Israel Ahmed lived in Tel Aviv until 2009 when he had to leave the city under the Israeli Gedera-Hadera policy, which bounded African asylum seekers by Gedera in the south and Hadera in the north, forbidding them from living in the center of the country.[5] He moved to Eilat where he established an educational center for refugees children,[6] who were not allowed to study in the public schools.[7][8] On 2012 the Gedera-Hadera policy has been cancelled after the Israeli supreme court ruled that this policy was a violation of Israel's own labor laws.[5] Ahmed moved back to Tel Aviv, where he established another community educational center for refugees.[9]