Foreign Workers

Ministers Approve MK Katz's Law for Southern Border Fence

MK Yaakov Katz: a minister must be appointed to oversee solution to infiltration problem.

Ministers decide to allow 800 illegal migrant families to receive citizenship if they have Israel-born children who have been in Israel 5 years.

A Powerpoint presentation making the internet rounds shows the severity of the barely-controlled influx of foreign workers into Israeli cities.

Head of Knesset Committee on Foreign Laborers tours Tel Aviv, warns Israel will soon have 100,000 illegal foreign laborers.

MKs from the coalition and opposition team up to create a new set of guidelines for employing foreign workers.

Tel Aviv activist Oren Zargari says the city is waking up to the danger posed by illegal entrants.

Haifa U Professor Arnon Sofer warns that migrant workers are pretending to be Darfur refugees in order to gain entry into the State of Israel.

The government voted to increase sentence for transporting illegal foreigners into Israel from two to a maximum of five years.

Interior Minister Yishai lashes back at groups critical of his policy vis-a-vis illegal foreigners; accuses them of exploiting workers.

Farmers clashed with immigration police Monday and demanded foreign laborers. Fruit farmers want increased sales to Gaza.

Yishai allows refugees to enter central Israel, Peres calls for illegal entrants' children to be granted residency.