Hebrew media: The war has shut down half of the construction projects in Israel

according to the Hebrew group Tasnim news agency, Globes newspaper in a report that has its own headline published, reported that half of the construction projects in Israel have been shut down because not a single foreign worker (after fleeing after October 7) is willing to return.

In the continuation of this report, the construction industry is facing a very severe and unprecedented shortage of workers these days, the main reason for which is the absence of even a single worker from countries such as India and Sri Lanka, while that Israeli policies do not allow Palestinian workers to enter, which has caused at least 3 percent of Israel’s annual gross domestic product to drop.

According to Globes, although Jacob Asher, the head of the Interior and Environment Committee, announced on October 24 that we should create an air train to transport foreign workers to Israel, but not a single worker has come to Israel since that date.

In the rest of the report, referring to the measures taken against the Palestinians after October 7, it is mentioned that until this date, the construction industry in Israel was almost completely It relied on Palestinian labor and 75,000 workers with work permits from the West Bank, 12,000 from the Gaza Strip, and another 15,000 were employed illegally in this industry, a number that is almost one Third, the construction industry accounted for the entire labor force, but after the beginning of the Gaza war, the entry of Palestinian workers was prohibited, which led to the creation of a gap of 100,000 people in this industry.

Foreign workers before the start of the war were 23 thousand people, most of them had Moldovan or Chinese citizenship, but many of them preferred to leave here because of the security situation in Israel. .

In this report, it is emphasized that these conditions have led to the paralysis of the construction industry and huge economic losses to the entire Israeli economy. Its losses, based on the assessment presented in last week’s meeting of the special committee for foreign workers, bring a monthly loss of 2.4 billion shekels to the Israeli economy.

The Prime Minister of Israel also admitted that he is considering a trial resumption of the return of Palestinian workers, although Palestinians over the age of 45 are supposed to be included in this plan for now.

According to this economic media of the Zionist regime, today the construction industry is facing an unprecedented shortage of labor, this shortage is not only for simple workers, but also for a large number of specialists, engineers and foremen due to being summoned to precautionary courses. They have not come to work and this shortage will probably continue to plague this industry for several months.

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