After an Indian foreign worker was killed by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile, the Population and Immigration Authority ordered the evacuation of remaining foreign workers to safety.

In addition to working on bringing in workers to replace those who left after October 7, the government is recommending new efficiency measures.

Israeli hotel owners are complaining of a shortage of thousands of needed workers for the Passover season ever since Palestinian and Jordanian workers were barred from the country due to October 7.

Ever since October 7, Israel has struggled to fill the gap left in agriculture, construction, and caretaking by Thai workers who fled and Palestinian workers who are barred.

Malawi will send 5,000 workers to Israel to help meet the need for workers after the Thai workers left and Palestinian workers have been barred.

Building off of previous bilateral negotiations for 10,000 Indian workers, the deal has now increased to 40,000, to be brought to Israel within weeks to fill wartime shortages.

A 30 year old resident of Thailand was found to have died in a fish pond in Kibbutz Beit Alfa.