‘Coronavirus, war in Gaza could lead to housing crisis’

The government must immediately approve bringing in 30,000 foreign workers to prevent the collapse of the construction industry and a rise in housing prices.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Updated: MAY 30, 2021 21:05
A Thai worker picks Etrogs, a citrus fruit used in rituals during the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in a grove in the southern community of Nave, near the border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt, October 6, 2014 (photo credit: REUTERS)
A Thai worker picks Etrogs, a citrus fruit used in rituals during the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in a grove in the southern community of Nave, near the border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt, October 6, 2014
(photo credit: REUTERS)
The government must immediately approve bringing in 30,000 foreign workers to prevent the collapse of the construction industry and a rise in housing prices, according to Eldad Nitzan, chairman of the foreign workers’ employers union in the construction industry at the Chamber of Commerce.
No foreign workers are being granted entry to Israel, and Palestinian laborers are not coming to work, due to the coronavirus pandemic and the security situation, he said Sunday in a press release.
This is the industry’s biggest crisis in the last decade, with companies facing a critical delay in the construction of thousands of housing units, Nitzan said.


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