Migrant workers

Israel imports record foreign workforce to replace Palestinians, but housing crisis looms

Israel now has 250,000 legal and illegal foreign workers, the highest number ever, according to Israel Population and Immigration Authority figures, with more to come.

Foreign workers seen working in a field near the Ben Gurion Airport, on August 14, 2025.
Thai workers collect freshly harvested fennel near Kibbutz Alumim in southern Israel

New report shows many migrant workers lacked access to shelter during Operation Roaring Lion

Foreign workers in the construction industry with Eldad Nitzan, chairman of the foreign manpower corporations.

Israeli government under pressure to overhaul foreign worker policy

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


Amnesty blasts Israel’s asylum-seeker system, demands halt to deportations

According to Amnesty International, the vast majority of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals identified themselves as refugees to the human rights organization.

Asylum seekers wait in line yesterday at the Population, Immigration and Border Authority office in Bnei Brak

WATCH: protesters in Jerusalem say they are 'willing to accept refugees'

Protests against government planned action to deport asylum-seekers to a third country were held in the capital on Saturday.

Demonstration in Jeruaslem against the planned deportation of asylum-seekers from Israel

Activists launch sanctuary project for African migrants

‘This is about Jewish values, Jewish history and the Jewish future,’ says co-founder Rabbi Susan Silverman.

Children of migrant workers Tel Aviv African refugee 370

Meretz MKs on 'emergency trip' to Rwanda to check on deported migrants

“We came here to expose to the Israeli public one of the greatest injustices in the history of the State of Israel."

A general view of Rwanda's capital Kigali, March 26, 2014

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.

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.

Letters

Suicide soars among Ugandan migrants abused in the Gulf

Uganda banned its nationals in 2016 from working in Oman.

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.

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.

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.

Thai workers collect freshly harvested fennel near Kibbutz Alumim in southern Israel