Migrant workers

Israel detains four foreign nationals who illegally crossed into Israel from Jordan

The unarmed individuals may have been migrant workers.

Israeli soldiers walk, at the Allenby Bridge Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, September 8, 2024.
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

 Arrest of the migrant worker near Kibbutz Shaar Hagolan on Saturday, May 17, 2025.

Sudanese migrant worker crosses into Israel via Jordan, detained by security forces

 Map of events showing the October 7 battle at the Alumim kibbutz.

Alumim Oct. 7 probe: 17 Thai, Nepalese workers killed because no plan to protect them


Foreign workers in Israel employed under slave conditions?

The Economy Ministry and population administration are not working together to ensure employment rights of foreign workers.

Filipina caregivers training in Manila

Uganda reportedly reaffirms denial of deal with Israel to absorb African migrants

Ugandan FM says no such arrangement has been made unless it's being done illegally, according to local media.

AFRICAN MIGRANTS sit on pipes outside Holot, a detention centre in Israel’s southern Negev desert.

NGO: African migrants deported from Israel among Christians killed in latest ISIS video

According to an NGO, the migrants did not get asylum seeker status in the third country and made their way north to Libya to try to reach Europe, after which they ended up in the hands of ISIS.

The three Eritrean asylum seekers said to have left Israel to a third country before ending up in Libya.

Up to 700 feared dead after migrant boat sinks off Libya

The boat is believed to have capsized when migrants moved to one side of the vessel when a merchant ship approached.

Migrants boat (illustrative).

NGO: State tells migrants to ‘voluntarily’ go to unknown country or be imprisoned

Justice Ministry responded to inquiries on the issue without naming the new countries, while also not denying they were Uganda, Rwanda.

AFRICAN MIGRANTS sit on pipes outside Holot, a detention centre in Israel’s southern Negev desert.

‘Racist’ Yahad ad barred by Elections Committee

Election Committee also claims that advertisement incites violence against migrant workers and asylum seekers.

Eli Yishai

High Court allows state to keep detaining migrants in Holot pending new decision

The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants responded expressing "sorrow about the decision."

Migrants eat dinner outside the Holot open detention facility.

Third times not a charm: NGO petitions to High Court to strike down migrant policy 3.0

Court had told the state in September it must close the Holot open detention center within 90 days.

African migrants walk in front of the entrance to Holot open detention center in the Negev

In Israel, who cares for the migrant caregivers?

Based on the hours they work, caregivers are making NIS 5.8 ($1.50) per hour, which is 25 percent of the legal minimum wage in Israel.

Filipina caregivers training in Manila

Regev pushing migrant bill forward - but will it pass final vote?

If the Knesset is unable to force the bill through, Holot stands to be closed by December 22, in keeping with the High Court ruling.

African migrants stand next to a bus after abandoning a detention facility in the southern Israeli desert