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Indian workers see Israel jobs as 'opportunity of a lifetime' despite Gaza war

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Israel is just another country in the middle-east seeking to exploit cheap indian labour: Indian workers heading to Israel not eligible for protections under government’s ‘e-migrate’ portal; must pay for their own travel, accommodation, insurance; Ministries pass the buck on workers’ safety in conflict zone - Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/no-protections-for-mi... .

That Israel wants to hire labourers from a distant country than hire Palestinians, to further impoverish them, is controversial in India:

- Export of Indian workers to Israel has no legality, say major trade unions - https://theleaflet.in/export-of-indian-workers-to-israel-has...

- No ‘export of workers’ to Israel, say trade unions in India - https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/international/indian-tra...

- Jobs in Israel: Labour Activists, Trade Unions Raise Concerns Over No Protections for Indian Workers - https://thewire.in/government/jobs-in-israel-labour-activist...

actually employer of foreign worker must provide him with insurance and housing. social security also provides coverage. mandatory paid vacation. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/generalpage/foreign_workers_ri...

Like in Greece.

Nominally and not actually.

actually it's actually. abuse of law does happens (will be publicized in news), but government tries to keep tabs on it and there are NGOs providing legal aid.

admittedly, could be managed better

> admittedly, could be managed better

That sounds like "nominally and not actually".

any aspect of law in Israel (and I guess in any given country) could be managed better. it doesn't make laws "nominal"

I think that compliance with the laws were deemed "nominal", not the laws themselves. In the sense, companies comply with the letter of the law instead of with the spirit of the law.

the other guy meant that laws exist nominally but not followed actually.

it's not same as comply with letter but not with spirit

Trade unions in India are paper tigers, and have no influence on those who want to go to the Middle East for labor jobs. The genuine question: are conditions for Indian labor going to be worse in Israel than in the Arab countries?

> That Israel wants to hire labourers from a distant country than hire Palestinians, to further impoverish them, is controversial in India:

Indians are also hired by companies like Google to move to and work in the US. Would you also describe that as Google wanting to hire labourers from a distant country than hiring canadians to further impoverish them?

I mean, look at a map. Palestine isn't even the only country bordering Israel. What exactly compels you to portray hiring a candidate as refusing to hire some other hypothetical candidate?

Not really surprising for an aparteid state

> That Israel wants to hire labourers from a distant country than hire Palestinians, to further impoverish them

Some of the attackers on 10/7 were workers in Israel who would commute back and forth; their knowledge of the terrain was important in the attacks. So maybe the reason is, not to impoverish Palestinians, but a justified concern about security.

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