They are concentrated in a "ghetto", their wages are kept low, requests for political asylum are not processed, and they are made to sleep outdoors –literally freezing to death. Roy Wagner writes about the guiding (and invisible) hand of the national and local authorities.

Two Congolese refugees who were employed in a fancy Tel Aviv restaurant claim: “We were laid off without compensation and our wages have not been paid”

Human rights NGOs strongly oppose the passage of a law in the Israeli Parliament stating that the Minister of Interior can restrict the transition of migrant caregivers between employers and even restrict their work to a specific geographical region.

The hope is that the change will put an end to payments of tens of thousands of shekels that workers say they must currently make to middlemen in order to get jobs in Israel.

State Comptroller's Report shows no clear policy exists towards migrants working in nursing profession.

Judge calls former policy intrinsic breach of foreign workers' rights; the policy mandated that foreign workers must leave the country after their baby is born, and can only return without the child.

The state forbids asylum seekers from finding legal employment, but does not offer alternatives and does not enforce labor laws on employers.

The bill aims to bind migrant caregivers to specific employer, geographical area and category of caregiving.