Foreign workers

The dramatic plan: Another 100,000 foreign workers by 2027

Population & Immigration Authority CEO Boaz Yosef marks the recruitment targets for workers: "The goal is to bring 330,000 foreign workers here."

|ByLIAT RON
Population & Immigration Authority CEO Boaz Yosef
Foreign workers in Israel

The pampering of young people in Israel could end in a security disaster

The flight of young people from certain sectors of the labor market is not a phenomenon unique to Israel, but in our specific case, it could turn into a severe security danger.

|By NIR KIPNIS
Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs attend a press briefing in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 1, 2026, providing details on the number and condition of Nepali citizens residing in conflict-affected Middle Eastern countries.

Nepal restarts Gulf work permits after Iran conflict halted labor migration

About 75% of Nepali workers abroad are in the Middle East, mostly in construction, and remittances make up over a quarter of the country’s $42 billion economy.

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

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.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

India, Israel agree to increase Indian foreign workers in Israel by 50,000 in the next five years

This update was part of a "List of 27 Outcomes" from the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Israel, which Jaiswal published on X/Twitter. 

FEBRUARY 26, 2026ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Yad Vashem with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 26, 2026.

Young Israeli men shown beating, harassing foreign workers in new social media trend

"[The workers] know that if they complain, they may be deported. So they keep quiet. And these boys know exactly that," one Tel Aviv man explains.

NOVEMBER 18, 2025ByDAN EZRA
Foreign workers seen around the central bus station in southern Tel Aviv on March 21, 2025.