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


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

Debunking the claim that “Palestinians” are the indigenous people of Israel

The Jerusalem Post

Swedish politician apologizes for saying Europe migrant crisis is 'the new Auschwitz'

Asa Romson also used derogatory word for Gypsy.

Migrants wait at Italian checkpoint prior to processing

Foreign workers in Israel employed under slave conditions?

The Economy Ministry and population administration are not working together to ensure employment rights of foreign workers.

Filipina caregivers training in Manila

Uganda reportedly reaffirms denial of deal with Israel to absorb African migrants

Ugandan FM says no such arrangement has been made unless it's being done illegally, according to local media.

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

NGO: African migrants deported from Israel among Christians killed in latest ISIS video

According to an NGO, the migrants did not get asylum seeker status in the third country and made their way north to Libya to try to reach Europe, after which they ended up in the hands of ISIS.

The three Eritrean asylum seekers said to have left Israel to a third country before ending up in Libya.

Up to 700 feared dead after migrant boat sinks off Libya

The boat is believed to have capsized when migrants moved to one side of the vessel when a merchant ship approached.

Migrants boat (illustrative).

NGO: State tells migrants to ‘voluntarily’ go to unknown country or be imprisoned

Justice Ministry responded to inquiries on the issue without naming the new countries, while also not denying they were Uganda, Rwanda.

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

‘Racist’ Yahad ad barred by Elections Committee

Election Committee also claims that advertisement incites violence against migrant workers and asylum seekers.

Eli Yishai