Migrant workers

Israeli government under pressure to overhaul foreign worker policy

The appeal followed Englman’s report on the state’s handling of the labor crisis in construction after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, when the entry of Palestinian workers into Israel was halted.

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

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

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

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


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

'Germany took our Jews and gave us Arabs,' French right-winger says

Germany has been heavily criticized by other European governments for its willingness to absorb hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Syrian refugees are reflected in a puddle as they wait for their turn to enter Macedonia at Greece's border

Tel Aviv pastor: African migrants ‘can make real contribution to society’

US Pentecostal delegation visit asylum-seekers as guests of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

IFCJ President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (left) speaks with Pastor Jeremiah Sunday Dairo in south Tel Aviv

In Tel Aviv, Holot, reactions mixed on fateful High Court decision on migrants

“They now understand that they can stay here and I don’t see any of them deciding to leave on their own now,” Tel Aviv city councilman says.

Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.

Tragic end for Moroccan migrant who dies trying to reach Spain in suitcase

Dead man's brother arrested for murder Spanish government spokesman says.

The Spanish ferry port of Almeria

NGO: Israel forces migrants to choose between leaving for Rwanda or indefinite prison

According to Hotline for Refugees and Migrants the State has invented a new loophole so it can detain migrants indefinitely in the Saharonim closed detention center.

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

Israeli NGOs battle over call for asylum for Eritrean migrants

Group says new UN Human Rights Council report doesn’t justify change in policy.

Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.

Europe and Israel's refugee crisis

Current government treatment of African asylum seekers clearly violates time-honored Jewish values.

Migrants wait at Italian checkpoint prior to processing

100 refugees and asylum seekers participate in academic program at BGU

Course choices included Basic and Advanced Hebrew, Introduction to Computer Sciences, Psychology and Education.

Refugees and asylum seekers at academic program at BGU