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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.

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?

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

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

The labor market has not yet recovered from the war


Israel elections: Merav Michaeli's Labor takes aim at Yair Lapid

A leaked Labor document called the prime minister's merger mediation attempts "illegitimate, counterproductive and unnecessary hysterics."

 Foreign Minister Yair Lapid with Merav Michaeli, Minister of Transport and Road Safety during a discussion and a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset, at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, on June 22, 2022

Israel elections: Are we barreling toward a sixth election round? - analysis

This time around, Netanyahu is not going anywhere. As a result, the country is staring down the barrel of yet another deadlocked election.

 WHO WILL greet Biden? Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid or Benjamin Netanyahu?

Israel Elections: Decisions to be made before parties give their lists

Questions involving a number of Israeli political parties will need to be decided until Thursday's deadline, and could lead to last-minute drama.

A voter in Jerusalem in the last Knesset election on April 9

Meretz gains at the expense of Labor, poll finds

The full poll results were: Likud 31, Yesh Atid 25, Religious Zionist Party 13, National Unity 12, Shas 8, United Torah Judaism 7, Joint List 6, Meretz 5, Yisrael Beytenu 5, Labor 4 and Ra’am 4.

 Zehava Galon following her victory in the Meretz leadership primary on August 23, 2022

Lapid, Michaeli, Galon to meet, discuss Meretz-Labor merger

The deadline for political parties to hand in their lists for the upcoming election is on Thursday.

 Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli, Meretz leader Zehava Galon

Zehava Galon: Labor could crash out of Knesset without Meretz merger

When asked if a merger is needed, Zehava Galon said that "out of responsibility, you must consider that one of the parties could fall [below the threshold].

 Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli, Meretz leader Zehava Galon

Likud's use of reserved slots keep the number of women MKs low - opinion

Opposition head Benjamin Netanyahu's use of reserved slots in Israel's Likud Party has become the focus of bitter competition among women.

 Former prime minister Naftali Bennett and the female ministers in the government pose for a photo with visiting German chancellor Angela Merkel earlier this year.

It's not the party, it's the bloc: Coalitions decide elections

INSIDE POLITICS: The number of parties in each bloc is crucial not only for Election Day, but for designing and defining the campaign.

 Merav Michaeli.

Boris Johnson: UK PM who washed dishes in Israel to exit Downing Street - opinion

Accordingly, the good news is that irrespective of who wins this week’s Tory leadership contest, Israel will continue to have a self-declared friend in Number 10.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu is welcomed to 10 Downing Street by Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 2019.

Meretz, Labor reach tentative surplus vote-sharing agreement

The agreement stipulates that after being allocated their number of seats in the Knesset, the two parties pool their votes together in an attempt to win one of the "leftover" seats. 

 (L-R) MKs Michal Rozin (Meretz) and Ram Shefa (Labor) following the signing of a vote-share agreement on Wednesday, August 31, 2022.