Migrant workers

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

The unarmed individuals may have been migrant workers.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
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

Heartfelt art exhibit soon to open in Tel Aviv, featuring the work of children facing the threat of deportation due to their status as the children of migrant workers in Israel.

|ByJOANIE MARGULIES
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

The IDF investigation into the incident found that the individual was a Sudanese citizen who worked in Israel in the past, but was deported from the country.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

Five people were kidnapped, three of whom were returned, and two of whom are still being held by Hamas or other terror groups.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

Netanyahu blames Soros for Israel anti-deportation campaign

Soros, who is Jewish, is a strident critic of Israel and has supported a number of NGOs with radical left-wing agendas.

FEBRUARY 4, 2018ByHERB KEINON
Benjamin Netanyahu and George Soros

January 21, 2018: Gender Roles

To paraphrase Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous quote, everyone is entitled to his own opinions but not his own facts.

JANUARY 20, 2018ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Suicide soars among Ugandan migrants abused in the Gulf

Uganda banned its nationals in 2016 from working in Oman.

NOVEMBER 30, 2017ByREUTERS
Muscat, Oman coastline 300

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.

NOVEMBER 29, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
Residents of south Tel Aviv protest against African migrants living in their neighbourhood

Reports of forced deportation to Rwanda rattles African asylum seekers

‘I am not a criminal – I am a mother trying to protect her children and give them a good life,’ says Sudanese refugee.

NOVEMBER 20, 2017ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
CHILDREN OF African asylum seekers play on a Tel Aviv beach on Independence Day

Israel sees record number of migrant workers over past five years

With the signing of several bilateral agreements, the ease by which foreign workers can travel to Israel has increased markedly.

NOVEMBER 7, 2017BySARAH LEVI
Thai workers collect freshly harvested fennel near Kibbutz Alumim in southern Israel

The African & Asian Migrants Could Help Israel's Security

OCTOBER 2, 2017ByDMITRI SHUFUTINSKY
The Jerusalem Post

Yisrael Beytenu parliamentary aide attacked by Eritrean migrant

The aide, an adviser to MK Yulia Malinovsky, was walking near her home late Friday night after a meal at her parents’ house, when she saw a man following her.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV
Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.

Shaked: Replace migrant workers with Palestinians

Justice Minister would like to see a legal program that will enable Palestinians to work in Israel, replacing the migrant workers who come to the country illegally.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Palestinian workers build settlement home in Kedumim 311 (R)

Refugees/asylum seekers: Begin vs Netanyahu

Would Menachem Begin have supported Prime Minister Netanyahu's hard line on asylum seekers?

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017BySHELDON GELLAR
An African asylum seeker in Tel Aviv. ‘Most of Israel’s approximately 40,000 African asylum seekers chose Israel as their destination because that they knew that Israel was ademocracy and believed Israel would accept them because the Jewish People had gone through similar experiences.’