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According to the report, which was based on Interior Ministry figures from November, there were 88,864 legal foreign workers in Israel. In addition, there are around 95,000 people in Israel illegally on expired tourist visas, 31,000 Palestinians working legally in Israel, and around 45,000 African “infiltrators,” most of whom are requesting group protection status. The figure also includes a few thousand Jordanian citizens and Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip who work in Judea and Samaria.
The report, titled “Non-Israelis in Israel: Foreigners, foreign workers, refugees, infiltrators, and asylum seekers 2010-2011,” does not include those who are in Israel on student visas or unexpired tourist visas.
A number of people came across the border from other countries including Georgia, Turkey and North Korea, seeking asylum in Israel.
The IDF believes that the number will continue to increase as construction of the Sinai border fence nears completion. Some 100 km. of the fence has already been completed and the remaining 120 km. is expected to be finished by the end of 2012.
After the Sinai fence is completed, expectations are that the migrant workers will try to infiltrate Israel via the Jordanian border. The government plans to begin closing off the Jordanian border with a fence as well.
-The Jerusalem Post, 8 January 2012
Africans and Asians make up the bulk of legal and illegal immigrants, seeking jobs and taking advantage of the generous social services Israel provides for all. The government’s answer to the influx of unregistered laborers and illegal immigrants is a 220 km. security fence. Doubtless, many will be kept out, but not all. Those who seek to better their life in Israel will find alternative ways to enter the country.
A similar situation is found in Europe, where literally millions are trying and succeeding in entering the continent through various ways. Based on previous experience, whenever there is a law, it will be broken; whenever there is security, it will fail.
Furthermore, illegal immigration is for all practical purposes global. Those from less prosperous nations attempt to improve their standard of living by entering more prosperous countries.
Israel, however, is unique and not to be compared with any other nation. The difference lies not with the nation itself but with the God of Israel who has chosen Israel for a specific purpose: to glorify Himself. We hear the words of the Lord through the prophet Zechariah, “Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you” (Zechariah 8:23).
(For more on Zechariah’s prophecies, read Zechariah’s Prophetic Vision for the New World, Item 1052, $12.99.)
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ISRAEL-Over 250,000 Foreigners in the Country
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