In the year since Akun Mou reached Israel from Egypt's Sinai Desert, he has gone from a high-security prison to a job as a kitchen worker at Eilat's King Solomon Hotel. Even though the 21-year-old Sudanese Christian spent nearly a year locked up in various Israeli jails, after losing his family at age 12, spending two years in slavery and being harassed by Egyptian police, Mou says he remains optimistic that the government will let him stay rather than deport him back across the border.