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Israel Plans to Bring in 15,000 Workers from Morocco

23 June 2022, Israel, village of Salem: Construction workers carry on building a new Part of the Separation Wall around the village of Salem in North border of Israel with West-Bank city of Jenin. (dpa)
23 June 2022, Israel, village of Salem: Construction workers carry on building a new Part of the Separation Wall around the village of Salem in North border of Israel with West-Bank city of Jenin. (dpa)
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Israel Plans to Bring in 15,000 Workers from Morocco

23 June 2022, Israel, village of Salem: Construction workers carry on building a new Part of the Separation Wall around the village of Salem in North border of Israel with West-Bank city of Jenin. (dpa)
23 June 2022, Israel, village of Salem: Construction workers carry on building a new Part of the Separation Wall around the village of Salem in North border of Israel with West-Bank city of Jenin. (dpa)

Morocco and Israel are planning to fly in thousands of Moroccan workers to Tel Aviv to meet local demand.

Up to 15,000 workers, including hundreds of engineers, are part of the plan.

Chairman of the Construction and Wood Workers Union in Israel’s Histadrut labor federation, Yitzhak Moyal, said: “We are short 40,000 workers in ten different professions.”

Since relaxing coronavirus restrictions, Israel has faced challenges in bringing in foreign workers, especially from Eastern Europe and China.

Domestic labor, backed by Palestinian workers, no longer meets the demands, even though 120,000 Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and 22,000 in the Gaza Strip are permitted to work in Israel.

Moyal revealed that joint efforts by the Moroccan and Israeli foreign ministries were capped with an agreement to launch a pilot program to employ a few hundred Moroccan laborers in the construction sector and dozens in nursing and assisting the elderly.

He hoped that over 15,000 Moroccan workers would eventually be recruited.

He noted that Moroccans are skilled in the sectors that are witnessing a shortage of labor in Israel, adding: “This could really improve the pace of construction in Israel.”

The first batch of construction laborers may arrive in Israel by 2023.

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Humanitarian Corridors and Pauses Needed in Sudan, US Envoy Says

The US special envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, attends a press briefing on the sidelines of Sudan peace talks at the US Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, August 23, 2024. (Reuters)
The US special envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, attends a press briefing on the sidelines of Sudan peace talks at the US Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, August 23, 2024. (Reuters)
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Humanitarian Corridors and Pauses Needed in Sudan, US Envoy Says

The US special envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, attends a press briefing on the sidelines of Sudan peace talks at the US Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, August 23, 2024. (Reuters)
The US special envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, attends a press briefing on the sidelines of Sudan peace talks at the US Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, August 23, 2024. (Reuters)

More and faster aid deliveries are needed in Sudan, the US special envoy to the war-weary country told Reuters, ideally through the implementation of humanitarian corridors and pauses as discussed with government leaders in a visit on Sunday.

"We are pleased that there has been some progress, but we need to see much more," Tom Perriello said in an interview, following the approval of flights to hunger-striken South Kordofan and the extension of permission to use the Adre border crossing into Darfur by the Sudanese army.

The army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in a 19-month conflict that has caused acute hunger and disease across the country. Both sides are accused of impeding aid deliveries, the RSF by looting and the army by bureaucratic delays.

Proposals including humanitarian corridors and pauses were shared with Sudanese sovereign council head Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and others on a trip to Port Sudan on Monday and progress was made, Perriello said.

In October, the sovereign council approved flights into Kadugli to provide assistance to rebel-held regions of South Kordofan state, where people have gone hungry without aid deliveries, through an agreement with the South Sudanese government.

"I think if we can see that same attitude on the ability to get corridors into places like Khartoum, Omdurman, El-Gezira, al-Fasher, Sennar I think we could get a lot of life-saving aid to some of the most desperate Sudanese," he said.

In a speech on Tuesday, however, Burhan cast doubt on the speed of progress.

"Our vision is clear to all those who want to help us. The war must stop first and the rebels must leave the areas they have occupied," he said.

"Once civilian life is back, relief can return and be available to all Sudanese," he added.

US-led efforts to bring the army and RSF to the negotiating table have not succeeded so far.

"We do remain in active lines of communication with RSF leadership on the negotiations around both humanitarian access and peace," Perriello said.