Indian workers replace Palestinians in Israel's building sector

While he and other Indians working alongside him do not look out of place on the expansive construction site, they are relative newcomers to Israel's building industry. They are part of an Israeli government effort to fill a void left by tens of thousands of Palestinian construction workers barred from entering Israel since Hamas's unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack. If that attack had not happened, this site, with its slowly emerging high-rise towers, homes, roads and pavements, would have teemed...