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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.

|ByYUVAL NISANI/GLOBES/TNS
Foreign workers seen working in a field near the Ben Gurion Airport, on August 14, 2025.
Employment Service, archive.

From Haredi cities to the Sharon: Where was the sharpest spike in job seekers recorded?

A 24.4% surge in Haredi job seekers and summer teacher layoffs drove up July unemployment, alongside ongoing growth in higher socioeconomic clusters.

|ByAVICHAI CHAIM
Yair Golan, chairman of The Democrats party, with party members following the announcement of the results of The Democrats party primaries ahead of the upcoming elections, in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 20, 2026.

Yair Golan's Democrats list for the Knesset cements Labor's shift to the far Left - opinion

To Yair Golan’s credit, he inherited a political party on the verge of collapse after his predecessor, Merav Michaeli, had led Labor to an electoral disaster in the 2022 election, securing four seats

|ByORI WERTMAN
The waiters and gardeners returned, the high-tech workers stayed home. Job fair

The labor market has not yet recovered from the war

The labor market continues to recover, but the road to the pre–war routine is still long: There were 169,000 job seekers in June.

|ByAVICHAY CHAIM

Labor activist Yaya Fink collects donations for Huwara pogrom victims

Settlers torched Palestinian houses and cars in Huwara in the northern West Bank and attacked Palestinians throughout the West Bank on Sunday after the attack. 

FEBRUARY 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
YAIR FINK BELIEVES that civil society can take its fate into its own hands – and cause change.

Labor Party files criminal complaint against Netanyahu

"I want to give you [ministers] a fist to strike at them [protestors against judicial reform]," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the cabinet meeting

FEBRUARY 25, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel's opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is seen gesturing at the Knesset, on July 26, 2021.

Labor presents mock bill to place Arye Deri 'above Israeli law'

The proposed bill would edit the Basic Law - the Government to state that Deri could not be tried for theft, corruption or tax offenses.

FEBRUARY 9, 2023ByTZVI JOFFRE
ARYE DERI gives the thumbs-up sign on Wednesday outside his Har Nof home in Jerusalem.

Gov't's economic plan ‘smokescreen to hide seizure of power’ -Merav Michaeli

“Spoiler: Mr. ‘Cost of Living’ won't deal with the cost of living, just like he won't really deliver free education,” Michaeli wrote.

JANUARY 12, 2023ByZACHY HENNESSEY
Merav Michaeli at the Maariv conference,

Former MK, dep. police commissioner Moshe Mizrahi passes away age 72

Moshe Mizrahi, a former Labor MK and high-ranking police official, has passed away.

DECEMBER 11, 2022ByMAARIV ONLINE
Labor MK Moshe Mizrahi

Avi Maoz is alienating even Likud members

National unity, if it ever arrives, will have to wait for a much later phase and very different circumstances.

DECEMBER 5, 2022BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
MK AVI Maoz attends a discussion in the Knesset plenum, last month.

Israel's center-left is in the opposition, and it is crumbling

INSIDE POLITICS: Once they were eight, sitting around the Bennett-Lapid cabinet table, all sharing one mutual achievement. Now they are five and sharing a defeat.

NOVEMBER 18, 2022ByTAL SHALEV
PRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid convenes a meeting of his coalition partners in the Knesset on Tuesday.

Grapevine November 6, 2022: Pride before the fall

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

NOVEMBER 6, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
YITZHAK RABIN

Merav Michaeli must take responsibility for failing Labor - editorial

Under Merav Michaeli's leadership, Labor fell from seven seats to just four, and yet she refuses to take responsibility for the failure.

NOVEMBER 6, 2022ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Head of the Labour party and Minister of Transportation Merav Michaeli gives a statment to the media following the results of the Knesset elections in Tel Aviv, on November 3, 2022.

Israel remembers Rabin as Netanyahu prepares to retake control

A number of MKs addressed the fact that this year's memorial will be held as Ben Gvir prepares to enter the new government.

NOVEMBER 5, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Israelis attend a memorial ceremony for late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, organized by the Labour party, at Zion Square in Jerusalem October 29, 2022.