A decision on the fate of the 1,200 children of migrant workers in Israel is expected soon. By the end of this month an inter-governmental committee will present its recommendations on the subject to the Minister of Interior. In an unusual move, the committee officials invited members of Israeli mig…
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Israeli Activists and Celebrities Urge the PM to Avoid Deporting Migrant Worker’s Children
March 10th, 2010
Israel NGO Encourages Employers to Force their Non-Jewish Workers to Sign Loyalty Pledges to the Jewish People
March 7th, 2010
Recently an Israeli NGO distributed leaflets in at least two cities calling on Israelis to force their non-Jewish workers to sign documents that pledge loyalty to the Jewish people. Over the last month the Lobby for Jewish Values, an anti-gentile NGO, distributed leaflets in Safad and Ashdod calling...
Israeli Migrant Rights NGO Highlights the Real “Survivors”
December 31st, 2009
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The Israeli worker rights NGO Kav LaOved (Hotline for the Worker) recently launched a campaign to highlight the plight of migrant workers in Israel. The NGO used the hype around the third season of Israeli Survivor, which takes place in the Philippines to show that the real survivors aren’t th...
HRW Overview of Migrant Workers Rights in the Middle East in 2009
December 20th, 2009
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) published last week a summary of the reports and research they’ve conducted over the last year on migrant rights. The end-year report highlighted the lack of protection of migrant workers in many Middle Eastern countries. In Kuwait, the report focused on the Sponsorshi...
HRW: Israel is Complicit in Egyptian Abuses of Forcibly Returned Migrants
December 15th, 2009
Human Rights Watch called on the Israeli Supreme Court to forbid the IDF to continue forcibly returning to Egypt refugees and migrants who cross the Sinai border. In the current policy, Israel doesn’t allow the migrants to seek asylum, forcing them instead to return to Egypt. In Egypt, the Afr...
Israel to Construct a Barrier along the Border with Egypt to Prevent Entry of Migrants
December 8th, 2009
Israeli Channel 2 and the paper Maariv reported today that Prime Minister Netanyahu approved the construction of a barrier along the Israeli-Egyptian border to prevent the entry of migrant workers and asylum seekers as well as criminal elements. As we’ve mentioned before, the plan to construct...
Israeli Building Owner Creates a Fire Hazard Leading to Death of 2 Workers
November 21st, 2009
Two days, a fire in an apartment building in Tel Aviv, which housed mostly migrant workers, resulted in the death of two people and injury of 12 others. The victims, a man and a woman in their thirties, are probably workers from Liberia. The fire started around 2:00 AM and spread all across the buil...
Israel’s Finance Minister: Migrant Workers are to Blame for Many of Israel’s Economic Problems
November 17th, 2009
Israel’s Finance Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz publicly confirmed today that his ministry is looking for the funds for a wall across the Egyptian-Israeli border, though which many migrant workers and refugees enter Israel. This is one of the moves the Israeli government is considering in its eff...
Israel: Employer sentenced to 8 years in prison for raping a Filipino worker
November 11th, 2009
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An Israeli employer was sentenced to eight years in prison and a 25,000 NIS ($6,700) fine for raping and sexually harassing his Filipino worker, the Israeli news portal Walla reported earlier this week. The man, Moshe Ben Yehuda (58) from the small town of Olesh, sexually assaulted the Filipino woma...
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