Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday pointed out his government's accomplishment in stopping illegal infiltration from Africa, hours after it was made known that this past week, for the first time since 2006, no illegal workers had snuck into Israel.
"The flood of infiltrators began in 2005 and continued to rise," Netanyahu said during a meeting with students in Be'er Sheva. "From dozens of infiltrators per month we reached a thousand per month, and at the end there would have been hundreds of thousands of illegal work immigrants. To ensure that we are in control of the southern border, I decided to build a fence from Gaza to Eilat. This week, the number of infiltrators who crossed the border and arrived in Israeli towns fell to 0."