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A mother and child sit at the entrance to a tent in the shelter. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)
April 25, 2026, 5:37 am
Sheltering in Tel Aviv’s bus station, foreign workers face unique plight in wartime
Hundreds of third-country laborers are forced to pitch tents in a squalid space beneath the depot, highlighting the challenging conditions faced by a fast-growing sector
By Theia Chatelle
A foreign worker drives a tractor near Shtula in northern Israel, next to the security wall on the border with southern Lebanon, January 8, 2026. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
March 17, 2026, 1:49 pm
For Israel’s most vulnerable workers, safety often comes second when missiles fly
Deaths of construction workers and a caregiver in Iranian attacks highlight dangers faced by laborers who feel forced to choose between shelter and livelihood
By Stav Levaton
From left to right: Neel Vicente, Reign Arpon and Prince Justice, children of foreign workers fighting to enlist in the IDF, January 15, 2026. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
January 30, 2026, 10:21 am
With IDF hurting for manpower, children of foreign workers step up fight to enlist
A High Court petition on behalf of 50 teens born and raised in Israel, but barred from serving in the army, argues that the law requires they be drafted alongside their peers
By Stav Levaton
A view of a crane that collapsed in the sea near Ashkelon, March 14, 2023, killing Israel Electric Corporation employee Nir Dekel, 54. (Flash90)
August 8, 2024, 7:15 pm
NGO calls for legislation to protect outdoor laborers from effects of climate change
The Workers’ Hotline fears rising temperatures, extreme weather events, will compound risks already faced in farming, sanitation, building, gardening, infrastructure work
By Sue Surkes
A caregiver walks with an elderly woman on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on July 2, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 4, 2024, 11:27 am
Right-wing MKs seek to eliminate pension payments to foreign caregivers
Bill exempting elderly, sick, disabled from making pension contributions for their aides passes preliminary reading; workers’ hotline warns it may keep good carers away from Israel
By Sue Surkes
A worker milking cows at a cowshed in the Golan Heights, on October 26, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
January 1, 2024, 2:40 pm
Government to mull plan to replace Palestinian laborers with 80,000 foreign workers
Proposal calls for Israel to recruit tens of thousands from Sri Lanka, China, India, Thailand and Moldova as construction and agriculture industries struggle with shortage of hands
By ToI Staff
A relative hugs a Thai worker who was evacuated from Israel, on his arrival at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakarn Province, Thailand, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
October 19, 2023, 8:23 pm
Thai laborers, the ‘working hands’ of Israeli farming, pay with blood
At Kibbutz Alumim close to the Gaza border, nine workers from Thailand were massacred, one was badly injured, and four were abducted by Hamas terrorists
By Sue Surkes
Gambian migrant workers protest in front of the consulate of Gambia on August 20, 2020, in Beirut, asking to be evacuated from Lebanon and be repatriated to their country. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
August 24, 2020, 9:06 pm
After Beirut blast, foreign workers beg to go home
Explosion exacerbates plight of at least 250,000 migrants who were already stranded in Lebanon, amid dollar shortages and subsequent pandemic
By Oumeima Nechi
Customers sit at a Coffee Shop in Jerusalem after it was reopened on May 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 27, 2020, 10:53 pm
Number of active virus patients drops below 2,000 as restaurants reopen
38 patients on ventilators — a 24-hour increase of 5; total cases now 16,793; death toll unchanged at 281
By ToI Staff
In this April 19, 2020 photo, Vox Cinema employee Jackline Nansamba of Uganda stocks shelves at a Carrefour supermarket while wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
May 7, 2020, 12:30 pm
Foreigners on the frontlines of pandemic in Arab Gulf states
COVID-19 crisis draws attention to vital role of expatriate workers in Arab Gulf countries, even as they are scapegoated as a source of infection
By Aya Batrawy
Illustrative: People wait in line outside a supermarket in Tel Aviv on April 07, 2020, (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 23, 2020, 3:59 pm
Scared and overworked, foreign caregivers man front line of Israel’s virus fight
As relatives are banned from visiting their elderly charges, workers say they get no relief and fear they’ll spread infection; deportations stop — but so do family visits
By Delphine Matthieussent
Illustrative: The port of the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, July 27, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
August 24, 2019, 9:38 pm
Foreign worker dies after falling from boat docked Ashdod port
Rescue divers draw Chinese man’s lifeless body of out water
By ToI Staff
Foreign workers, their children and supporters take part in a protest against the deportation of the children of Filipino workers in Tel Aviv, on August 6, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 21, 2019, 6:11 pm
Judge orders Filipino couple and 2 Israeli-born daughters kept in jail
No decision reached in appeal against deportation of family; dozens of friends of girls, aged 13 and 10, protest outside Tel Aviv court
By ToI Staff
Filipino children carry banners during a protest against deportation in Tel Aviv on August 6, 2019. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
August 18, 2019, 11:26 am
Filipino couple and their 2 Israeli-born daughters arrested ahead of deportation
Parents have reportedly been living in Israel for 20 years, and their children, aged 13 and 10, study in Tel Aviv school
By ToI Staff
Geraldine Esta and her children Khean and Kathryn arrive for a court hearing in Tel Aviv on July 28, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 30, 2019, 3:47 pm
Court rejects appeal against deportation of Filipino woman, her Israel-born kids
Geraldine Esta and her 2 children given 45 days to leave the country, as judge agrees to free them on bail; attorney says they plan to petition higher court
By ToI Staff
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