Israel: Israel’s Farms Need Foreign Labourers. The Hamas Attacks Triggered an Exodus

Nov 26, 2023 | Joseph Ataman, Nic Robertson and Kocha Olarn, CNN
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The violence has set off an exodus of foreign workers from Israel, with some 10,000 farmworkers estimated to have left since October 7, according to the Israeli government. For Israel’s dairy and agricultural farms, that has posed an almost existential problem. Dairy cows need milking several times a day by specially trained staff, while the past weeks have been the harvest window for many crops.