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


The African & Asian Migrants Could Help Israel's Security

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.

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.

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?

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.’

WATCH: Netanyahu, Barak take to social media to throw shade at one another

After PM Netanyahu took a jab at Barak in a viral video posted to his Facebook page, Barak fought back in his own sharply-worded post.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with Ehud Barak at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem June 8, 2009.

Netanyahu pledges to deport African migrants

Prime Minister Netanyahu took a shot at the High Court of Justice about the status of most of the migrants.

AN AFRICAN migrant walks with his luggage after being released from Holot detention center in the Negev in 2015.

Right-wing activists and south TLV residents protest court

Right-wing activists railed against what they view as the court's usurping the authority of the other branches of government.

Right-wing activists and south Tel-Aviv residents protesting outside the house of the Supreme Court President Miriam Naor in Jerusalem.

The politics of protesting unelected politicians

For the past nine months, every Saturday night protesters have gathered outside Mandelblit’s apartment building in Petah Tikva to demand that he indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A crowd holds a rally against political corruption near the Attorney General's home in Petah Tikva

Tough on migration

There are no easy answers when dealing with the worldwide migrant crisis – and this holds true for Israel no less than for Europe, the US or Australia.

African migrants gesture behind a fence during a protest against Israel's detention policy towards them

Israeli activists deem ruling on migrants’ deportation bittersweet

"Most important is that the government cannot forcibly deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda."

CHILDREN OF migrant workers play on a Tel Aviv beach on Independence Day, marking the 65th anniversary of the creation of the state last year.