News Brief

(IsraelNN.com) The Chairman of the Knesset’s Migrant Workers Committee has called for the establishment of a security fence to be built to prevent further illegal border crossings into Israel from Egypt.

Migrant Workers Committee Chairman MK Yaakov Katz (National Union) will tour along the border fence between Israel and Egypt this Thursday in order to inspect first hand the occurence of illegal entry into Israel. According to Katz, each month between six hundred and a thousand refugees illegally cross the border. "This makes for an annual rate of nearly 12,000 refugees who illegally enter Israel and are filling the back yard of Tel Aviv," said Katz in an interview with Arutz Sheva.