Israel to recruit 70,000 foreign workers from India, China

Eastern Eye02 Jan, 2024News

Yehuda Morgenstern, director general of the construction and housing ministry, told the Calcalist financial daily that a plan to increase the quota of foreign construction workers to 70,000 from 50,000 would be approved by the government in the coming days. The quota in November was boosted to 50,000 from 30,000 to help the housing sector, which is suffering from labour shortages since around 80,000 Palestinian construction workers were barred from entering Israel in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel.