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


SodaStream’s Palestinian employees to receive renewed work permits

Workers brush aside long commute to work for CEO Birnbaum, a ‘man of peace.’

ALI JAFAR takes a break at the SodaStream factory in Rahat last year

Terrorism fears soar in Germany amid recent Islamist attacks, migrant crisis

"Never before in the course of our surveys have peoples' fears risen so drastically within a year as in 2016," says head of survey center.

A participant of the so-called "Carnival of migrants" holds a banner as the take part in a rally to protest against racism in Berlin, Germany, March 20, 2016

Susan Sarandon teams up with IsraAID to cheer up refugees in Berlin

Sarandon met with local volunteers, attended a women's group session and opened a new table tennis room in the shelter.

Actress Susan Sarandon holds a refugee baby at Rathaus Wilmersdorf refugee shelter in Berlin

Flug: Allowing foreign workers in keeps construction methods 'ancient'

Overall Israel's economy suffers from low productivity, and is dragged down by inward-looking industries that are less exposed to global competition.

A laborer works on an apartment building under construction in the Har Homa quarter in Jerusalem

At least 42 migrants drown as boats capsize off Greek islands

A Syrian refugee child looks on, moments after arriving on a raft with other Syrian refugees on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos

Merkel on defensive as anti-migrant sentiment soars in wake of Cologne rapes

Under German law, asylum seekers are typically only deported if they have been sentenced to at least three years in prison, and providing their lives are not at risk at home.

Supporters of anti-immigration right-wing movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) rally in Cologne

Migrant caregivers’ ‘#OurHands Campaign’

Organizations around the world are now rallying through a campaign called “Our Hands” to share information with domestic workers and encourage collective mobilization.

An African migrant worker sleeps on a bench of a bus station in south Tel Aviv

NGOs lodge appeal over policy for migrants denied refugee status

The legal decision over how to handle the issue of around 45,000 African migrants who crossed into the country illegally, but claim refugee status, is somewhat up in the air.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from the Holot detention center in the Negev

Defending fair labor practices for migrant workers in Israel

Migrant workers in Israel originate mostly from the Philippines, India, Sri-Lanka, Nepal and Eastern Europe.

Elderly Israelis wait for their turn to vote

'Miles to go before I sleep' - On the front lines of the migration crises in Europe

The images being shown ranged from horrific stories of dead refugees suffocating in a truck while being smuggled, to Germans clapping and welcoming arrivals.

THE WRITER poses next to the fence along the Hungarian border