Migrant workers in israel

Israeli government under pressure to overhaul foreign worker policy

The appeal followed Englman’s report on the state’s handling of the labor crisis in construction after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, when the entry of Palestinian workers into Israel was halted.

Foreign workers in the construction industry with Eldad Nitzan, chairman of the foreign manpower corporations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Yad Vashem with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 26, 2026.

India, Israel agree to increase Indian foreign workers in Israel by 50,000 in the next five years

Painting of the government complex build  with people protesting in front of it against the deportation of themselves, their families, or their friends.ing in Tel Aviv

'Home is here': Art exhibition showcases undocumented children's stories amid release of new report

 THE POPULATION and Immigration Authority office in Jerusalem yesterday.

Ten Indian foreign workers rescued from Palestinian village


Mandelblit: Knesset solution for migrants is 'black hole' in legal system

Mandelblit said the bill would utterly break with the foundations underlying Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit

Police arrest 83 suspects after Immigration Authority bribery scandal

Population and Immigration Authority employees suspected of bribing residents to cut waiting times.

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Come and Kuchinate with me

it behooves us to consider our own past while we consider what to do with those drifting souls.

KUCHINATE, ‘CROCHETING’ in Tigrinya, the language of Eritrea, is a collective of African asylum-seeking women who crochet colorful baskets and carpets in a studio pulsing with children, hot food, volunteers and nuns

Filipino guest workers come to Israel... and decide to embrace Judaism

While many Filipinos come to Israel for a few years to make money in a developed economy, the Lopez family converted to Judaism. And as of May, they still hadn’t told their Filipino friends.

Friday afternoon in the Filipino shuk, outside Evelyn’s Market, brings customers from all over Tel Aviv and Israel

This week in 60 seconds: Mossad blamed for death of Hamas-affiliated engineer in Malaysia

Got a minute? Here's the week in review.

Jerusalem Post News

Amsalem: Netanyahu may go back to UN agreement on migrants

Coalition chairman said the PM may go back to plan he canceled within 24 hours of its announcement, and that the proposal to probe the New Israel Fund is toothless.

African asylum seekers line up to apply for a visa in Bnei Brak, Israel

Justices: Is Israel now deporting migrants against their will?

It has been widely reported that most migrants are being deported to Rwanda, while Uganda has been mentioned as a secondary destination.

African migrants wait in line for the Population and Immigration Authority office to open in Bnei Brak.

Deportation dilemma: Should they go or should they stay?

As Israel begins the deportation process against asylum seekers, Eritreans are given legal recourse to stay.

African migrants painted in white hold signs during a protest against the Israeli government's plan to deport part of their community, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, Israel February 7, 2018

Extending my hand to Africans in Israel

Horror stories from the visa office were peppered with the darkest gallows humor. As far as jokes go, I told them, you’re officially Jewish now.

An African refugee in south Tel Aviv wears a T-shirt with a Hebrew phrase referring to the Holocaust: “I promise to remember... and never forget!”

Knesset members vote to worsen migrant conditions ahead of deportation

Following the meeting, Amnesty International Israel called on the country to allow all the migrants to stay.

Residents of south Tel Aviv protest against African migrants living in their neighbourhood