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47,000 foreign workers come to Israel since start of Gaza war
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Due to the war, Palestinians who work in Israel have been barred from entering the country due to security concerns, so more foreign workers have been brought to Israel to replace them.
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"H-1B program is a scam": Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
During an interview on Fox News on Wednesday (local time), he claimed that companies often train American workers alongside H-1B visa holders, only to lay off the Americans and hire the foreign workers. DeSantis added that this practice is unacceptable and hurts American workers.
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Israel to bring 1,020 more foreign workers for hotel industry
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
This development boom will see approximately 4,000 new hotel rooms open by next year. The number of hotel rooms in Israel is expected to reach more than 60,000 by the end of 2026.
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All foreign workers' visas extended due to war
Updated : 8 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Due to the security situation, Israel's Population and Immigration Authority announces the extension of visas for foreigners residing in the country legally and whose visas were valid on June 12, 2025.
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Permits for 1,500 more foreign workers to be allocated
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Israel's Ministry of Economy and Industry is publishing a quota allocation of 1,500 permits for professional foreign workers in the industrial sector. The Ministry said this is being done in order to "enable the continued operation and growth of factories, for the purpose of developing and s
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Israel seeks to bring in record 133,000 Thai agricultural workers in 2025
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
A delegation from Israel's Population and Immigration Authority, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Labor, headed by the Authority's Director General, Ronen Peretz , and with the participation of the Head of the Foreign Workers Administration at the Authority, Moshe Nakash , is lea
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US: Divide in Trump's camp as Musk, Ramaswamy face backlash after advocati
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Musk and Ramaswamy -- both foreign origin leaders heading Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) -- have reignited the debate on H-1B visas, while reflecting a divide over immigration policy as Trump prepares to assume office.
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Israel has new task force on employment of illegal residents
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Israel's Tax Authority and Population and Immigration Authority announced a joint task force to eradicate the employment of foreign workers who do not have work permits and to arrest their employers.
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Israel increases quota for foreign workers by 14,300
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Israel's Committee of Directors General on Foreign Workers, chaired by the Prime Minister's Office Director-General Yossi Shelley, approves an additional quota for up to 14,300 more foreign workers to come to Israel in order to fill the labour shortage caused by the ongoing war against Hamas
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Israel approves plan to import 92,000 foreign workers
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Seeking to address a labour shortage, Israeli officials approved a quota of 92,000 foreign workers to fill jobs in agriculture, industry, hotels and restaurants, the Prime Minister's Office announced on Tuesday.
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More Sri Lankan workers coming to Israel
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Israel's Minister of the Interior, Moshe Arbel, met Tuesday morning in Jerusalem with the Sri Lankan Minister of Labor, Manusha Nanayakkara, to examine the tightening of relations between the two governments in regards to the recruitment of foreign workers from Sri Lanka.
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Israeli farmers get green light to expand cultivation areas
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Farmers expanding their cultivation areas can now correspondingly augment the number of foreign workers they employ, which the ministry said will empower farmers to grow and produce "according to their ability and desire and not according to the necessity of the resource of working hands."
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