The Heavy Price of Foreign Agricultural Workers: "I Saw My Friend Get Killed. I’m Scared, But I Keep Working."

60 foreign workers in the field of agriculture have been murdered since the outbreak of the war, six in the northern fields recently. Interior Minister Moshe Arbel claimed that ‘it’s illegal to employ foreign workers in communities that have been evacuated,’ but there is no such law, and, in any case, there would be no Israeli agriculture without foreign workers: ‘If Israelis want avocados, someone has to pick them.’ A Shomrim investigation into the heavy price that migrant workers are paying including thousands of dollars to private personnel contractors, who have returned to operating under the auspices of the war

November 14, 2024